Tan Pin Pin

Tan Pin Pin

Tan Pin Pin is an award-winning Singapore film director who has spent over two decades chronicling her country’s history, memory and representation in thoughtful and self-reflexive works that have screened theatrically in Singapore and abroad. Her works have been invited to key film festivals: Berlinale, Busan, Hot Docs, SXSW, Visions du Reel and at the Flaherty Seminar. Nearer home, they have been presented at M+, Parasite, CUHK, Rumah Attap, Sa Sa Art Projects, on Singapore Airlines, Jakarta Biennale and on Netflix. Her work has been honoured with mid-career retrospectives at RIDM in Montreal, Liberation Docfest in Bangladesh and Dok Leipzig. Pin Pin started her career in the arts as a photojournalist. When video cameras became more affordable, she made the leap to the moving image after being moved by Taiwanese auteur’s Hou Hsiao Hsien’s City of Sadness. Inspired, she made her first film, Moving House (1996) using borrowed cameras. It is about the exhumation of her great-grandparent’s graves and their remain’s subsequent move to a columbarium. The film got her her first film job as an assistant director for the police drama, Triple Nine, and latterly, a scholarship to study film at Northwestern University, USA. Her graduation film won a Student Academy Award. Upon her return to Singapore, she made Singapore GaGa (2005) a film about Singapore’s soundscape. It was described as “One of the best films about Singapore” by the Straits Times. It became the first Singapore documentary to have an 8-week sold-out theatrical run. Meanwhile, the citation for the award from Cinema du Reel for Invisible City (2007), her next film, reads, “A witty, intellectually challenging essay on history and memory as tools of civil resistance”. Her short film Pineapple Town (2015), one of seven in the 7 Letters omnibus, was Singapore’s entry to the Oscars. Meanwhile, To Singapore, with Love (2013), a film about Singapore political exiles was banned by Singapore’s censors for undermining National Security. IN TIME TO COME (2017), her next film is an immersive film about Singapore rituals like fire drills and mosquito fogging sessions.

  • Title: Tan Pin Pin
  • Popularity: 1.334
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1969-01-01
  • Place of Birth: Singapore
  • Homepage: http://www.tanpinpin.com
  • Also Known As: 陈彬彬
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Tan Pin Pin Movies

  • 2018
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    Singapore Cinema: Between Takes

    Singapore Cinema: Between Takes

    1 2018 HD

    From Crazy Rich Asians (2018) to 12 Storeys (1997) to Sumpah Pontianak (The Curse of Pontianak) (1957), Singapore’s film industry is a diverse...

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  • 2010
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    Sandcastle

    Sandcastle

    5 2010 HD

    En is an 18-year-old who has lost his father to cancer. As his family is drawn together in a sudden tragedy, he has to decide what he believes in....

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  • 2005
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    Singapore GaGa

    Singapore GaGa

    1 2005 HD

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  • 2020
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    North Wind: Broken Time

    North Wind: Broken Time

    1 2020 HD

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  • 2013
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    To Singapore, with Love

    To Singapore, with Love

    6.4 2013 HD

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  • 2023
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    Walk Walk

    Walk Walk

    1 2023 HD

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  • 2001
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    Rogers Park

    Rogers Park

    1 2001 HD

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  • 2001
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    Moving House

    Moving House

    1 2001 HD

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  • 2001
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    Moving House

    Moving House

    1 2001 HD

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  • 2015
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    7 Letters

    7 Letters

    7.3 2015 HD

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  • 2017
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    In Time to Come

    In Time to Come

    5 2017 HD

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  • 1996
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    Moving House

    Moving House

    1 1996 HD

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  • 2004
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    Crossings: John Woo

    Crossings: John Woo

    1 2004 HD

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  • 2004
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    Crossings: John Woo

    Crossings: John Woo

    1 2004 HD

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  • 2004
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    Crossings: John Woo

    Crossings: John Woo

    1 2004 HD

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  • 2013
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    To Singapore, with Love

    To Singapore, with Love

    6.4 2013 HD

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  • 2007
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    Invisible City

    Invisible City

    6 2007 HD

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  • 2013
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    To Singapore, with Love

    To Singapore, with Love

    6.4 2013 HD

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  • 2019
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    Unteachable

    Unteachable

    1 2019 HD

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  • 2010
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    The Impossibility of Knowing

    The Impossibility of Knowing

    1 2010 HD

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