The Substation Moving Images presents:
Four Short Films by Woo Ming Jin
20th Dec Saturday, 5pm
The Substation Theatre
Tickets at $6/4 (concession for students, NSFs, SFS members)
Available at The Substation box office
*Includes post-screening Q&A with writer/director Woo Ming
Jin
Film Programme
1. BLUE ROOF / 13min / 2007 / PG
Albert, a security guard in an apartment complex, is a middle aged
man who walks with a limp, and is obsessed with collecting news
articles on car accidents. Each morning, during his rounds, he goes
up to the rooftop, and contemplates suicide. Will he ever
jump?
Festivals & Awards: Rotterdam International Film Festival 2008,
12th Pusan International Film Festival 2007
2. CATCHING THE SEA / 13min / 2005 / PG
Catching the Sea is a short film about the lives of several people
in a village after a mysterious disease strikes and kills their
loved ones. Set in a dilapidating fishing island, the film is about
reconciling death and moving on with life.
3. LOVE FOR DOGS / 24min / 2003 / PG
Love for Dogs tells two parallel stories; A construction worker
returns to his hometown and tries to reconnect with his daughter
after abandoning his family to work in Cambodia. The second story
follows Lily, an overweight girl living with her aunt and dealing
with the absence of her immediate family.
Festivals & Awards: Bangkok Short Film Festival (Special
Mention Award), Digital MOV Festival 2005, Manila (Best Asean Short
Film), Rotterdam International Film Festival 2005
4. IT IS POSSIBLE MY HEART CANNOT BE BROKEN / 16min / 2005 /
PG
It is Possible Your Heart Cannot Be Broken is a short film about
the innocence and disintegration of love. It tells the story
between two people, Apple and Ah Tat, told in two different
perspectives. Ah Tat, a dreamy simpleton romantic meets the jaded
but equally insecure Apple. Can these two people - obviously
completely different yet yearning for the same thing- sustain their
relationship?
“This is a big city, but sometimes it’s the loneliest place.”
Festivals & Awards: Rotterdam International Film Festival 2006,
Hong Kong International Film Festival 2006, Singapore International
Film Festival 2006
POST-SCREENING Q&A WITH WOO MING JIN
Director’s Statement:
My films have focused on nature and its relationship with humanity.
I have always been fascinated by the “beauty of ruins”. Nature is
an element that man must live with, and that is something that
plays out in my films. In these films, the characters struggle to
reconcile their broken lives with their surroundings. Each
character is flawed, and none of them has a solution to fix
themselves.
Each film is framed and lit the way I intended, and in some ways,
they reflect my thoughts and views of the world.
These four shorts best represent my work as an artist. The stories
are small and intimate, but they are also powerful and poignant.
They are also funny.
About Woo Ming Jin (Writer/Director)
Ipoh born Malaysian filmmaker, Woo Ming Jin, is an award-winning
filmmaker who studied film and television at the San Diego State
University after receiving a scholarship in 1999.
His feature film debut, Monday Morning Glory, premiered at the San
Francisco International Film Festival, and was invited to the
Berlin International Film Festival, the first Malaysian film
selected in the last 10 years. It was also selected to the Pusan
International Film Festival, Tokyo International Film Festival, and
Locarno International Film Festival, among others.
His second feature film, The Elephant and the Sea, has five awards
and has been selected to screen in more than 30 film festivals
worldwide, including the Rotterdam, Los Angeles, Seattle, Hong
Kong, Vancouver, Torino, and Karlovy Vary Film Festivals.
This year Ming Jin received a script grant from the Pusan Film
Festival for his next feature, Woman on Fire Looks for Water.
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