this program explores the porous boundaries between memory, perception, and representation, in the films of Mary Helena Clark, Peng Zuqiang, and Ana Vaz. Through layered images, disembodied voices, and poetic fragments, their works investigate how cinema can become a space for sensing what resists articulation—where histories echo, identities blur, and meaning flickers at the edge of perception.

Mary Helena Clark - The Glass Note

(9 mins) a collage of sound, image, and text explore cinema's inherent ventriloquism. Across surface and form, the work reflects on voice, embodiment, and fetish through the commingling of sound and image.

Peng Zuqiang - The Cyan Garden

(8:05 mins) reflects on the difficulty of giving form to a past that resists memory. Filmed partly on discontinued military-grade 16mm stock, it moves between the ruins of an underground communist radio station and an Airbnb apartment called “The Lover.” The station, once home to the exiled Voice of the Malayan Revolution, now sits on a site soon to become a resort. Through ghostly images and drifting pop songs, the film traces the blurred lines between revolution, romance, and forgetting.

Peng Zuqiang - 13 Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

(31 mins), named after the poem by Wallace Stevens, presents a series of attempts at looking and being looked at. Developed through a year-long collaboration with high school students as part of the City-State commission Unschool, the film becomes a kaleidoscope of shared questions and reflections. “The film is a song you can see,” wrote one student—a fitting description of a work where the camera becomes a tool for sensing, drawing, and dreaming.