ART SG Film opens with a focus on artists as subjects
Established to present new filmmaking practices and historically-relevant works by artists from Southeast Asia. The 2025 edition is curated by Stefano Rabolli Pansera.
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ART SG in Singapore, Southeast Asia's leading global contemporary art fair, is organizing a curated selection of film, video art and moving image artworks for its 2025 edition of ART SG Film. The program was established with the primary goal of presenting new filmmaking practices to the broader art world, as well as historically-relevant moving image works by artists and filmmakers from the Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific regions. This year's edition of ART SG Film focuses on the artists as subjects.
The program opens on January 17 at the ArtScience Cinema in Marina Bay Sands Singapore. Throughout the course of three days, viewers will have the opportunity to immerse themselves into three thematically-distinct segments, with each one uncovering a different aspect of filmmaking practices in Southeast Asia. On the first day of the event, dive into the pool of art, nature and real and imagined environments that flows forth from the artists’ imagination in the section “Constructing Landscapes,” where you can see the diversity of methods that artists employ to engage with their surroundings.
The second day is devoted to the contemplative, intimate side of the filmmaking profession, with the works featured in “Voices and Whispers” taking you on an evocative journey through the sumptuous narratives, unspoken subtleties, and creative reverberations expressed by some of the most influential representatives of contemporary and modern art. The third day of the program takes a turn toward the social realm in “Ruins and Prophecies,” taking a look at how artists interact with the radical changes and challenges that grip society, turning towards the past to construct a new future.
The panel discussion "Intangible Stages: Time-Based Media in Site-Specific Locations" is scheduled for the second day of ART SG Film. The main curator of the program, Stefano Rabolli Pansera, independent curator Sam I-Sham, and curator and art historian Lydia Yee will discuss the ephemeral and intangible qualities of moving image art within site-specific locations, with a simultaneous focus on site-specific biennales and groundbreaking new initiatives in the Southeast Asia and Asia Pacific region.
ART SG Film is open from January 17-19. More information about the artists and films featured in the program can be found on the ART SG site.