Icarus
Total run time: 15:09
16mm to HD video, stereo, color
2024
It has been 10 years since I moved away from Singapore, and I return to find both the island and my family changed. Spurred by my grandmother’s deteriorating memory, I interview my family in an urgent attempt to document, asking what it is that they wish for themselves, and each other. As a dizzying, wistful 16mm meditation that captures one transitory summer in the city, “Icarus” reflects on rifts and portals where migration, dementia and time have left signals.