exits / entrances | Apichatpong Creators’ Lab film (2024)
Won Special Mention at Singapore Youth Film Festival 2024
Honorary Mention at Cine Pobre Film Festival 2024
Nominated for Best Film, Best Director, Best Editing at Singapore Youth Film Festival 2024
Screened at Singapore Youth Film Festival 2024
Screened at Galeria Wayak, Izamal August 2024
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Directed, shot and edited by Lim Yen
Produced as a part of PLAYLAB Films Creators’ Lab 2023,
under Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Filmed in Yucatan, Mexico
Made possible through IMDA Talent Progression Programme Grant
(Overseas Development) for Project Labs
Supported by Infinite Frameworks
Currently in its festival rounds
I live to leave, I leave to live.
A film shaped by uncertainty, a confrontation with both cultural unfamiliarity and personal introspection– what lies beyond those doors? Are they just symbols of transition, curiosity, and the constant negotiation between leaving and staying? Why do we constantly seek for more? Of stepping into others' safe spaces and leaving something behind, of human connection and freedom across linguistic barriers and unfamiliar territories. On embracing the in-between, on questioning the shift in physical and lyrical perspectives, while also making mistakes along the process while trusting every move made. An unplanned exploration, a concept of "how not to make a film," produced as part of Apichatpong Creators' Lab 2023 and shot in Yucatán, Mexico.
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Attempting to tell stories with local people inherently carries a sense of self-consciousness, especially as someone privileged to leave my home in Singapore and enter the heart of Yucatan, Mexico. Every door is an opportunity or a risk. Why do I constantly seek for more? What lies behind those doors? For the people of Yucatan, the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. To encapsulate joy in simplicity in the most organic and unobtrusive manner, the camera being my tool of personalisation, their curiosity about me as I was them. To enter and exit a space through a frame. Of entering others' safe spaces and leaving something behind, of human connection and freedom across linguistic barriers and unfamiliar territories, every texture, color, and emotion became a memory etched in film: organic, unobtrusive, and true. A concept of "how not to make a film", produced as part of Apichatpong Weerasethakul Creators' Lab 2023.
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trailer
film as below, password available upon request
A film shaped by uncertainty, a confrontation with both cultural unfamiliarity and personal introspection– what lies beyond those doors? Are they just symbols of transition, curiosity, and the constant negotiation between leaving and staying? Why do we constantly seek for more? Of stepping into others' safe spaces and leaving something behind, of human connection and freedom across linguistic barriers and unfamiliar territories. On embracing the in-between, on questioning the shift in physical and lyrical perspectives, while also making mistakes along the process while trusting every move made. An unplanned exploration, a concept of "how not to make a film," produced as part of Apichatpong Creators' Lab 2023 and shot in Yucatán, Mexico.
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Attempting to tell stories with local people inherently carries a sense of self-consciousness, especially as someone privileged to leave my home in Singapore and enter the heart of Yucatan, Mexico. Every door is an opportunity or a risk. Why do I constantly seek for more? What lies behind those doors? For the people of Yucatan, the grass isn’t always greener on the other side. To encapsulate joy in simplicity in the most organic and unobtrusive manner, the camera being my tool of personalisation, their curiosity about me as I was them. To enter and exit a space through a frame. Of entering others' safe spaces and leaving something behind, of human connection and freedom across linguistic barriers and unfamiliar territories, every texture, color, and emotion became a memory etched in film: organic, unobtrusive, and true. A concept of "how not to make a film", produced as part of Apichatpong Weerasethakul Creators' Lab 2023.
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trailer
film as below, password available upon request
