Documentary Documentary Short Films

Eileen traces her family history of how work serves as a function for survival and an act of love. She takes on the work of a tombstone maker. By making her own tombstone, she puts her filmmaker identity to death.A Viddsee Original ProductionDirector Statement: How does one define essentialism? What type of work is essential to Singapore’s society? Essentialism has been a controversial topic since the beginning, and it is no different, when The Straits Time pushed out an article “essential, or not” - Singapore thinks that artists are not essential to society especially in the time of a pandemic.I look at the knee jerk, triggered reactions of artists, and I ask myself why are people upset? I ask myself, do I feel that way? Does our work define our sense of self-worth? Then I realised people may have associated the idea of being essential to the idea of being important. No one likes to think that what they do, is not important to society. To explore this further, I feel like I have to question my own relationship with my work - filmmaking.Reductive thinking is dangerous, that’s where we experience inequality. Our inability to appreciate the nature of each job, to over categorise, is what creates a divide in society. After all, every job is created by man to fill a gap and to solve a problem or enhance society. In Your Shoes, essentially, is my way of exploring the connection and perception of work beyond filmmaking.All jobs have it's identity and function, it’s not about what is essential. The real question begs - what is our relationship with our work?

Who cleans up the place after a person has passed on? Eileen takes on the work of an after-death cleaner and explores the dignity in such gruesome work.A Viddsee Original ProductionDirector Statement: How does one define essentialism? What type of work is essential to Singapore’s society? Essentialism has been a controversial topic since the beginning, and it is no different, when The Straits Time pushed out an article “essential, or not” - Singapore thinks that artists are not essential to society especially in the time of a pandemic.I look at the knee jerk, triggered reactions of artists, and I ask myself why are people upset? I ask myself, do I feel that way? Does our work define our sense of self-worth? Then I realised people may have associated the idea of being essential to the idea of being important. No one likes to think that what they do, is not important to society. To explore this further, I feel like I have to question my own relationship with my work - filmmaking.Reductive thinking is dangerous, that’s where we experience inequality. Our inability to appreciate the nature of each job, to over categorise, is what creates a divide in society. After all, every job is created by man to fill a gap and to solve a problem or enhance society. In Your Shoes, essentially, is my way of exploring the connection and perception of work beyond filmmaking.All jobs have it's identity and function, it’s not about what is essential. The real question begs - what is our relationship with our work?

What goes on underground in our sewage? Eileen works as a sewage cleaner and uncovers the “dirty secrets” of society’s perception towards cleaners.Director Statement: How does one define essentialism? What type of work is essential to Singapore’s society? Essentialism has been a controversial topic since the beginning, and it is no different, when The Straits Time pushed out an article “essential, or not” - Singapore thinks that artists are not essential to society especially in the time of a pandemic.I look at the knee jerk, triggered reactions of artists, and I ask myself why are people upset? I ask myself, do I feel that way? Does our work define our sense of self-worth? Then I realised people may have associated the idea of being essential to the idea of being important. No one likes to think that what they do, is not important to society. To explore this further, I feel like I have to question my own relationship with my work - filmmaking.Reductive thinking is dangerous, that’s where we experience inequality. Our inability to appreciate the nature of each job, to over categorise, is what creates a divide in society. After all, every job is created by man to fill a gap and to solve a problem or enhance society. In Your Shoes, essentially, is my way of exploring the connection and perception of work beyond filmmaking.All jobs have it's identity and function, it’s not about what is essential. The real question begs - what is our relationship with our work?

Driven by how her grandma raised the family by selling seafood, Eileen tries to overcome her seafood phobias by working at the Kelong. She questions if passion is essential to one’s work. She traces the source of passion - is passion nature or nurture?A Viddsee Original ProductionDirector Statement: How does one define essentialism? What type of work is essential to Singapore’s society? Essentialism has been a controversial topic since the beginning, and it is no different, when The Straits Time pushed out an article “essential, or not” - Singapore thinks that artists are not essential to society especially in the time of a pandemic.I look at the knee jerk, triggered reactions of artists, and I ask myself why are people upset? I ask myself, do I feel that way? Does our work define our sense of self-worth? Then I realised people may have associated the idea of being essential to the idea of being important. No one likes to think that what they do, is not important to society. To explore this further, I feel like I have to question my own relationship with my work - filmmaking.Reductive thinking is dangerous, that’s where we experience inequality. Our inability to appreciate the nature of each job, to over categorise, is what creates a divide in society. After all, every job is created by man to fill a gap and to solve a problem or enhance society. In Your Shoes, essentially, is my way of exploring the connection and perception of work beyond filmmaking.All jobs have it's identity and function, it’s not about what is essential. The real question begs - what is our relationship with our work?

In the season finale of In Your Shoes, Eileen works as a farmer. Having only experience farming in games, she steps into the reality and hard work of a farmer. Eileen concludes if she feels that’s her work is essential to society.A Viddsee Original ProductionDirector Statement: How does one define essentialism? What type of work is essential to Singapore’s society? Essentialism has been a controversial topic since the beginning, and it is no different, when The Straits Time pushed out an article “essential, or not” - Singapore thinks that artists are not essential to society especially in the time of a pandemic.I look at the knee jerk, triggered reactions of artists, and I ask myself why are people upset? I ask myself, do I feel that way? Does our work define our sense of self-worth? Then I realised people may have associated the idea of being essential to the idea of being important. No one likes to think that what they do, is not important to society. To explore this further, I feel like I have to question my own relationship with my work - filmmaking.Reductive thinking is dangerous, that’s where we experience inequality. Our inability to appreciate the nature of each job, to over categorise, is what creates a divide in society. After all, every job is created by man to fill a gap and to solve a problem or enhance society. In Your Shoes, essentially, is my way of exploring the connection and perception of work beyond filmmaking.All jobs have it's identity and function, it’s not about what is essential. The real question begs - what is our relationship with our work?

More than just a domestic helper, Lena is also a competitive athlete in Singapore. Home Away From Home is about a 33-year old Indonesian whose life changed after joining Race2Share. The film explores the theme of community in a foreign land and how home is where we make it to be.This film was done as part of a Year 2 documentary module in the Diploma in Creative Writing for TV and New Media.

An intercultural couple embarks on a journey to create an elixir that transcends language barriers and unlocks the secret to telepathic communication.

Cultural values clash when each year a range of international artists take part in a residency programme in a small South Korean village within spitting distance of the Demilitarised Zone - the buffer, which divides North and South Korea.

Covid-19: for Giancarlo, 70, forced quarantine is torture. He therefore decides to change his time zone.

"Tea Time with Mama" is a documentary about Afnan and her mother as they recollect their memories of their homeland in Yemen before they moved to Qatar. They also bond over the topics of the sacrifices and role of a mother while they spend tea time together.

CALLED HOME is a short documentary exploring Helvetia, a rural, Swiss village tucked in the Appalachian Mountains of West Virginia. We hope this can act as a catalyst for empathy and sincere interest in viewpoints not our own and that it helps construct a positive vision of West Virginia and her people.

Nurhandoko(51), a female trapped in male’s body, wants to fight her independence as a transgender in the society that disapproves transgenders.