SG-LA Simulacrum
Film Documentary
This is a film documentary meant to bring about architecture awareness emerging from societal phenomenon.
The exhibition includes a simultaneous screening of two separate film about the 2 cities (Singapore and Los Angeles), displaying the struggle in everyone when it comes to differentiating the ‘Real’ and ‘Virtual’ perceptions. The camera moves in various speeds, experimenting with the human’s visual digestion of the surroundings. The audience then interacts with this diptych digestion of sound and visuals, having to choose which to accept or to reject during the experience.
In fast-paced Singapore, we often zip around and seldom slow down to observe the small, intricate parts of the city morphology. What is it that makes the city breathes? What makes up the city experience that we more often than not, could not describe fully? What is the ‘seen’ and ‘unseen’?
In Downtown Los Angeles, the film depicted the lives of the homeless community in a place well-known as the centre of the movie-world - Hollywood. The phenomenon of the homeless community is a sad, avoided yet true part of LA. Yet, as much as people try to ignore and avoid them, there are groups of people that work beyond their duties to provide and care for the homeless. The nomadic roaming with trolleys, smells and streetscape the homeless creates do provide an interesting architecture setting for the city.