It has been a long, long road for Tzang Merwyn Tong's Faeryville. A dystopic tale of troubled youth in Singapore the picture was made entirely outside the established system within that nation, where the politics of the picture put it very much at odds with the image that Singapore very much prefers to project to the world at large.But Tong has persisted through the years and with a modest public release planned for this coming weekend, advance ticket sales are already selling out - prompting the local distributor to add more screenings.Poe and his friends are pranksters at Faeryville College, often bullied by the oppressive fraternity. To protect themselves, they form a clique calling themselves The Nobodies. Enter Laer, a new transfer student who joins...
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- 5/11/2015
- Screen Anarchy
It's been a long time coming for Singapore's Tzang Merwyn Tong and long in the works passion project Faeryville. Tzang's feature debut after a string of highly acclaimed shorts Faeryville has been eight years in the making, its story of misfit youth pushed to violence proving the sort of sensitive material many were afraid to touch and support. But with things now wrapped the first teaser has arrived and while it's very much a brief tease meant to announce the imminent arrival of the full trailer there's already enough here to see influences from early Toyoda, Sono and the like.Poe and his friends are pranksters at Faeryville College, often bullied by the oppressive fraternity. To protect themselves, they form a clique calling themselves The Nobodies....
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- 10/23/2014
- Screen Anarchy
I've been to Faeryville, and it's one heck of a ride. One Singapore filmmaker is standing out from the rest of the pack with his works, avoiding the tried and tested successful formulae that makes it big at the local box office, opting instead to forge his own independent path down the fantastical realms that genre films can offer. With medium length films like [e'tzaintes], V1K1 - A Techno Fairytale, and A Wicked Tale, the latter arguably his most successful and acclaimed work to date, Tzang Merwyn Tong has now come full circle with his first feature film called Faeryville, set in an eco-system deceptively modelled as a college.Last year, Tzang debuted a work-in-progress cut codenamed Frvl at the South-east Asian Film Festival in Singapore, and had wickedly left the audience with...
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- 2/19/2014
- Screen Anarchy
Filed under: Columns, Cinematical
Welcome to Framed, a Cinematical column that runs every Thursday and celebrates the artistry of cinema -- one frame at a time.
Short films have come a long way since the moving images of stag cinema, exotic locales, fairground variety acts, propaganda and the marvels of everyday life. What has grown since the days of Edison's Kinetoscope and the Lumière Cinématographe has developed out of an artist's view of the world -- like the Surrealist experiments of the twenties ('Un Chien Andalou') and the sixties avant-garde (Chris Marker). In the eighties, another kind of short film was born -- the music video ('Thriller'). MTV showcased the work of directors -- many of whom eventually became feature film favorites (David Fincher) -- whose quick-cut editing style influenced the way we consume visual narrative. Now, with the advent of newer technology and the Internet, an independent...
Welcome to Framed, a Cinematical column that runs every Thursday and celebrates the artistry of cinema -- one frame at a time.
Short films have come a long way since the moving images of stag cinema, exotic locales, fairground variety acts, propaganda and the marvels of everyday life. What has grown since the days of Edison's Kinetoscope and the Lumière Cinématographe has developed out of an artist's view of the world -- like the Surrealist experiments of the twenties ('Un Chien Andalou') and the sixties avant-garde (Chris Marker). In the eighties, another kind of short film was born -- the music video ('Thriller'). MTV showcased the work of directors -- many of whom eventually became feature film favorites (David Fincher) -- whose quick-cut editing style influenced the way we consume visual narrative. Now, with the advent of newer technology and the Internet, an independent...
- 3/10/2011
- by Alison Nastasi
- Moviefone
Filed under: Columns, Cinematical
Welcome to Framed, a Cinematical column that runs every Thursday and celebrates the artistry of cinema -- one frame at a time.
Short films have come a long way since the moving images of stag cinema, exotic locales, fairground variety acts, propaganda and the marvels of everyday life. What has grown since the days of Edison's Kinetoscope and the Lumière Cinématographe has developed out of an artist's view of the world -- like the Surrealist experiments of the twenties ('Un Chien Andalou') and the sixties avant-garde (Chris Marker). In the eighties, another kind of short film was born -- the music video ('Thriller'). MTV showcased the work of directors -- many of whom eventually became feature film favorites (David Fincher) -- whose quick-cut editing style influenced the way we consume visual narrative. Now, with the advent of newer technology and the Internet, an independent...
Welcome to Framed, a Cinematical column that runs every Thursday and celebrates the artistry of cinema -- one frame at a time.
Short films have come a long way since the moving images of stag cinema, exotic locales, fairground variety acts, propaganda and the marvels of everyday life. What has grown since the days of Edison's Kinetoscope and the Lumière Cinématographe has developed out of an artist's view of the world -- like the Surrealist experiments of the twenties ('Un Chien Andalou') and the sixties avant-garde (Chris Marker). In the eighties, another kind of short film was born -- the music video ('Thriller'). MTV showcased the work of directors -- many of whom eventually became feature film favorites (David Fincher) -- whose quick-cut editing style influenced the way we consume visual narrative. Now, with the advent of newer technology and the Internet, an independent...
- 3/10/2011
- by Alison Nastasi
- Cinematical
Freshly premiered from Singapore director Tzang Merwyn Tong is V1K1, a sort of techo riff on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. Fairies have but one rule, and that is never to be discovered. Viki, a techno fairy, must be careful to avoid being outwitted by an intelligent human scientist, holding her brother hostage in his laboratory. Produced on a microbudget with a largely student based cast and crew V1K1 has just had its first screenings in Singapore and will next roll out on the international festival circuit. Tzang, for his part, hopes to be shooting his debut feature before the end of the year....
- 3/10/2011
- Screen Anarchy
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