An experimental non-fiction and fiction film programme explores the suffocation engendered by frontiers and borders across historical, social and personal terrains. Balancing the double sense of threat and possibility offered by trespassing and errantry, these works examine subjects carving out spaces of liberation and reflection amidst various forms of entrapment.

Two works from Okinawa capture the island’s palimpsestic history through various modes – the autobiographical and the performative; McMullin’s work re-stages indigenous fa’afafine folklore; while Daphne Xu and Pom Bunsermvicha turn to the fateful odysseys of our central female protagonists.

This screening is followed by a Q&A with some of the filmmakers in the programme.