- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- January 1, 1969
- Place of Birth
- Singapore
Tan Pin Pin
Tan Pin Pin is an award-winning Singapore film director who has spent over two decades chronicling her country’s history, memory and representation in thoughtful and self-reflexive works that have screened theatrically in Singapore and abroad. Her works have been invited to key film festivals: Berlinale, Busan, Hot Docs, SXSW, Visions du Reel and at the Flaherty Seminar. Nearer home, they have been presented at M+, Parasite, CUHK, Rumah Attap, Sa Sa Art Projects, on Singapore Airlines, Jakarta Biennale and on Netflix. Her work has been honoured with mid-career retrospectives at RIDM in Montreal, Liberation Docfest in Bangladesh and Dok Leipzig. Pin Pin started her career in the arts as a photojournalist. When video cameras became more affordable, she made the leap to the moving image after being moved by Taiwanese auteur’s Hou Hsiao Hsien’s City of Sadness. Inspired, she made her first …
Filmography
movieWalk Walk
2023 · Director
movieNorth Wind: Broken Time
2020 · Director
movieUnteachable
2019 · Executive Producer
movieSingapore Cinema: Between Takes
2018 · Self
movieIn Time to Come
2017 · Director
movie7 Letters
2015 · Director, Writer
movieTo Singapore, with Love
2013 · Director, Writer, Director of Photography
movieThesaurus
2012 · Director
movieYangtze Scribbler
2012 · Director
movieSnow City
2011 · Director
movieThe Impossibility of Knowing
2010 · Director
movieSandcastle
2010 · Doctor
movieInvisible City
2007 · Director
movieSingapore GaGa
2005 · Director
movieCrossings: John Woo
2004 · Director, Writer, Producer
movieRogers Park
2001 · Director
movieMoving House
2001 · Writer, Director
movieMicrowave
2000 · Director
movieMoving House
1996 · Director