e'Tzaintes Before Faeryville: Insider's Look into 90s Guerilla Filmmaking in Singapore
Schedule
Sun Aug 17 2025 at 03:00 pm to 05:00 pm
UTC+08:00Location
National Library, Singapore | Singapore, SG
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90s DIY guerrilla filmmaking was raw, rebellious, and reckless — with a lot of hope. And this August, we’re going to dive right into it.In Celebration of Faeryville's 10th Anniversary
📅 17 August 2025 (Sunday)
🕒 3–5 PM
📍 National Library Building,
Level 1 Lobby, 100 Victoria Street�
Admission is Free. Registration now open. �
https://form.gov.sg/6850eda8f470b44fa194d090
Join us for a rare afternoon with the three producers of [e’Tzaintes] — Lee Amizadai, Armen Rizal, and Tzang Merwyn Tong — as they revisit a Singapore underground film once marketed as a “Reckless No-Budget B-grade epic Teenage Black Comedy.”
[e’Tzaintes], a Singapore film by three 19-year-olds, went on to gain a cult following, with underground screenings in Berlin, Munich, and Montreal, winning awards in the US, and even getting their film bootlegged and sold on VCD in Manila.
This talk will take you back to an era and aesthetic of pre-digital, low-budget anti-mainstream filmmaking that ran on heart, favours, friendship, compromise, and improvisation. These 3 filmmakers did it outside the system, with their friends — embodying the punk DIY spirit of resistance and creativity in Singapore’s media landscape during the 90s. Book your calendar. Bring your friends, your teachers, your collaborators.
Expect behind-the-scenes stories, screening of clips, and a raw, unfiltered conversation about the courage it took to be creative in Singapore — then and now.
Speakers:
Lee Amizadai
Armen Rizal
Tzang Merwyn Tong
This is part 1 of 2 events celebrating Faeryville's 10th Anniversary. e'Tzaintes is the film that Tzang made before Faeryville, set in the same world as Faeryville.
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