Dreaming & Dying
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Film description
Three friends, who were once more than that, meet years later to reminisce about the olden days. Diving back into the past leads them deep into the surprising corners of their memories, and their alcohol-enhanced minds color reality with unexpected, oneiric hues. Hidden emotions, old grudges, and romantic disappointments begin to resurface.
Nelson Yeo's debut is a modern take on the 1948 Chinese classic "Springtime in a Small Town." The story is reimagined in the Singaporean context and enclosed in the space of the cult Haw Par Villa entertainment park. "Dreaming & Dying" is a mixture of a fairy tale, a pastiche of artistic cinema, and a deeply personal story filled with the director's past, deep sadness, and the mistakes of adolescence. In the interviews, Yeo says that the making of the film was directly inspired by a memory of his first cigarette.
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Łukasz Mańkowski
Nelson Yeo
Visual artist and film director, graduate of the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, creator of many short films shown at festivals around the world. His debut feature, "Dreaming & Dying," premiered at Locarno IFF where Yeo received the prestigious Concorso Cineasti del presente award.
2012 Wormhole (kr.m.)
2015 Mountain of Knives (kr.m.)
2019 Mary, Mary, So Contrary (kr.m.)
2020 Here Is Not There (kr.m.)
2021 Dreaming (kr.m.)
2022 Plastic Sonata (kr.m.)
2023 Ja odchodzę, a ty śnisz / Hǎo jiǔ bú jiàn / Dreaming & Dying