DIMINISHING MEMORIES
SGP / AUS 2005 – Director: Yee Peng Eng – Original language: English, Mandarin – Subtitles: English – Length: 50 min.
Singapore’s economy is one of the strongest in Asia. But at what price? Since the 60s the Singaporean government has been resettling people from all over the country to make way for industrialisation. Today there are no more rural villages left on the South-East Asian Island. Director Eng Yee Peng takes us on a personal journey to recollect memories of her own childhood spent in the village of Lim Chu Kang. But even the living memory of village life is dying and at the end of the journey, all that remains are diminishing memories of a vanished world. This collective retrospection uncovers a chapter of Singaporean history of which was little known until today: the high price the population had to pay for its economic boom. "When I was nine years old, the government started to resettle people and my family was forced to relocate. I felt sad, I missed the village life very much. You could say that it had an emotionally huge impact on me, like a wound. When I was in Australia studying, the sound of rain drops falling on the roof rekindled fond memories of my childhood in the village and I really wanted to make a film about my village." Eng Yee Peng
Awards: 19th Queensland New Filmmakers Award; Best Tertiary Documentary 2005
Writer: Eng Yee Peng. Camera: Eng Yee Peng. Sound: Eng Yee Peng. Editing: Eng Yee Peng. Music: Daniel Fournier. Production: Eng Yee Peng. Producer: Eng Yee Peng.
