How we make sense of 'other' bodies? What is ours and what isn't?About this Event
Content Advisory Warning: This session features short films with coarse language and sexual references. Viewer discretion is advised.
Act 3: Other Selves
In this third installation of Partial Bodies, Whole Worlds, three short films explore how we make sense of 'other' bodies; selves that are not entirely ours but still remain tethered by way of familial ties, external projections, or avatars.
Featured Short Films
Aunty CB (2022); dir. Fiona A. Cheong
Shot on Super 8mm, Aunty CB is a memory montage of a Singaporean woman’s stream of consciousness and her honest introspection portraying her as a victim and perpetrator of the female sex. Aunty CB speaks in Singlish, Hokkien, and English, and is based on an art book of the same name.
Smoke Gets In Your Eyes (2022); dir. Alvin Lee
After sending the wrong body for cremation by accident, a funeral director has to answer to three grieving children and save the impending funeral. He devises a plan to ensure that his mistake goes unnoticed during the funeral.
Love Quest (2025); dir. Kevia Tan
Love Quest is a performative desktop documentary exploring the complexities of modern dating. Using The Sims, a sandbox game that allows players to freely interact with the game world, the film reconstructs the dating experiences of two app users, blurring the boundaries between digital simulation and reality. By merging real-life interactions with digital platform elements to create a dystopian-like reality, the film reflects the gamified nature of modern dating. Through this lens, Love Quest questions whether something as delicate as love can truly be found online.
About the Series
Partial Bodies, Whole Worlds brings together moving images that reflect on how the human body is seen, remembered, and reimagined through fragmentary forms. Taking its cue from artist Ng Eng Teng’s sustained engagement with the figure - at once expressive, intimate, and pared down - the series places his work in conversation with other bodily representations across the Museum’s collection.
These include documentation of performance-based practices, sketches of people encountered in everyday life, studies of the human form, and archival photographs that register the body through gesture, movement, and trace. Across these varied materials, the body appears not as a fixed or idealised whole, but as something partial, contingent, and shaped by time, observation, and lived experience.
Through the moving image, the series considers how fragments of the body can carry emotional, social, and imaginative weight. Each screening invites audiences to encounter the partial figure not as something lacking, but as a site of possibility - where presence is felt through what is incomplete, and where every part opens onto a wider world.
Presented within the exhibition , this film series takes place in the gallery itself, allowing audiences to watch the films alongside the artworks that inspired the programme.
Event Venue
NUS Museum, 50 Kent Ridge Crescent, Clementi, Singapore
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