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HEAT WAVES

Kent Chan
Holland/Singapore, 2022
21 min

The film examines through twin montages the contexts, politics, and proliferation of different aesthetics of heat. Aesthetics that are often generalised – charged with vibrancy, vitality, and visual complexity – that are increasingly mined at a time when the earth is simultaneously warming.

The film begins with one screen attempting to explain Aristotle’s theory of the cosmos, while the other blasts us with Drill music. Then the screens change place and proceed to talk to us about Christopher Columbus, Vasco de Gama and the maiden voyage of 1497. This is only the beginning of a twenty-minute-long voyage, conceived as a two screen installation on the different discourses surrounding global warming. From mainstream Hollywood films, broadcast media, to comic books, Tik-Toks and advertisements, Heat Waves is a fully packed postmodern take on image production in the face of disaster. (Emil Vasilache)

Date and Location

28th of September, 18:30, Cinemateca Eforie

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Kent Chan

Kent Chan is a Singaporean artist, curator and filmmaker based in Amsterdam and Singapore. His practice revolves around our encounters with art, fiction and cinema. He holds particular interest in the tropical imagination and the past and future relationships between heat and art. He is a former resident of Jan van Eyck Academie and NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore. His work has been shown internationally at Kunstinstituut Melly, de Appel, EYE Film Museum and Times Museum, amongst others. His filmography includes: Filem (2009), Pointe Aside (2011), Watching Eclipses (2013), Image of the Dark (2014), Orphic Oracular (2014), If Not, Accelerate (2016), Seni (2019), A Tropics Expanded (2020), Tremors (2021).

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