With the DVD of TIONG BAHRU soon to be available at all branches of the NLB, on the new TIONG BAHRU site you can read the first of 4 specially commissioned pieces for the booklet that accompany the DVD, exploring the ideas of memory, voice, place and identity.

In TERRA INCOGNITA, poet Alvin Pang explores the landscape and culinary delights of Singapore through his father’s memories

“In my father’s head is a map of Singapore quite different from the ever-dancing web of abstract colours that we have come to know from the official records, the bus and train stations or the increasingly unreliable street directory. His chart of the city is marked by stories and street legends, not signposts or landmarks.” Read more here.

Also, on the site, find out details of the film’s international touring programme, and watch a lovely short film about the value of neighbourhood shops by Edwin Soedarmadji.