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Festival 2025
hard boil, soft centre
Singapore, 2024

Expanded
Directed by
Elsa Wong & Sonia Kwek
Running time
12 mins
Expanded

Unfolding as a series of vignettes, hard boil, soft centre is a surrealist short film that reimagines four female archetypes, threaded together with the symbol of the egg. Inspired by mythological figures intermingled with personal dreams, each story features a character of each archetype and their associated landscapes, lending each a distinct colour, atmosphere and quality of movement.


Tickets


30 April 2025, 8:00 PM
Rich Mix 
Director Bio



Elsa Wong is a filmmaker, photographer and set designer based in New York and originally from Singapore. She explores themes of fairy tale and performance, creating surrealistic environments and characters within her work. Taking inspiration from the cinematic, she is interested in creating visuals that expand beyond the realistic landscape, enhanced through colors and editing.

Sonia Kwek is an artist from Singapore whose transdisciplinary practice focuses on performance, movement and the body as material. Her work explores corporeal sensualities, the potency of kinesics and latent tensions within archetypes and metaphors, to centre the expression and experience of the personal, unseen, intimate, visceral and erotic.

Programme Information



Screening as part of (Dis)orientalism: Queer Extensions and Looking East.