2019
A Land Imagined 《幻土》, winner of the Golden Leopard at the 71st Locarno Film Festival is the second feature film by director Yeo Siew Hua. Set in industrial Singapore, police investigator Lok must is looking for missing migrant worker Wang. Wang suffers a worksite accident and is afraid of repatriation. Unable to sleep, he frequents a dreamy cybercafé in the dead of the night. Hoping to look for some form of human connection in this foreign land, Wang forms a virtual friendship with a mysterious gamer that takes a sinister turn. When Wang suddenly disappears, Lok digs deep into the trail leading to a land reclamation site and uncovers the truth beneath all that sand. In a diverse land where identity is inherently foggy, Yeo suggests that becoming another person is as easy as dreaming it.
The typeface on the titleblock references shimmering waves and evokes the feeling of shifting landscapes.
Identity formation in Singapore is fluid and schizophrenic, like our ceaselessly shifting shorelines reclaimed from sand we appropriate from so many places. The colors and treatment of the poster reflects the connection and tension between all these people in the same imagined land responding to the imagined world.
SINGAPORE GALA PREMIERE
We also designed the red carpet gala premiere held at Cathay Singapore. It features a series of large backdrops with the photos of the main leads of the film and also the festival circuit the film has been on, showcasing the international film awards it has garnered in the process.
