Time Flows in Strange Ways on Sundays (Yi yi)
Ajyal Competition, Ajyal at Vox - Ajyal Film Festival 2021
Giselle Lin / Short Narrative / Singapore / 2021 / 17 min / Colour / DCP / In English, Mandarin / Arabic, English subtitles / MENA Premiere
Rated: Parental guidance is advised. Some material may be inappropriate for young children.
Synopsis
A mother, trapped in the comfort of memory and mourning, confronts her grief when she is invited to the wedding of her late son’s childhood sweetheart. Inspired by the filmmaker’s own feelings of grief from a family estrangement, ‘Time Flows in Strange Ways on Sundays’ is a mournful short about how memory affects people through the passage of time, and the bittersweet melancholy that remembrance and eternal love can bring.
About the Director
Giselle Lin is a writer-director born and raised in Singapore. She graduated from the Puttnam School of Film & Animation. Her thesis film ‘Yi yi (Time Flows in Strange Ways on Sundays)’, had its world premiere at the 74th Locarno Film Festival. Giselle has always wanted to tell stories about women, for women—depicting women’s passions, disappointments, and routines. She finds inspiration in human interaction, the transience of life, and the emotional quality present in all things, living or not.
Credits
- Director
- Giselle Lin
- Screenwriter
- Giselle Lin, Lim Xiang Yin
- Producer
- Clyde Kam
- Editor
- Dionne Goh
- Production Designer
- Niesa Marie Luib
- Co-Producer
- Tasha Budiman
- Cinematographer
- Clyde Kam
- Production Company
- Puttnam School of Film & Animation, Lasalle College of the Arts
- Sound
- May Chong Xue Ning
- Cast
- Wendy Toh, Peter Yu, Iris Li