ArtScience Cinema

ArtScience Cinema is ArtScience Museum’s first purpose-built screening room. It will present a curated programme of film all year round. Featuring a diverse range of programming that includes featured films, cinematic retrospectives, film festival selections, documentaries and more, ArtScience Cinema boasts spacious, comfortable seating and high-quality surround-sound wireless headphones for a truly immersive cinematic experience.

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We Tread in a Garden of Spells

28 May – 31 Jul

From Chloé Zhao to Wes Anderson, this specially curated film programme celebrates humanity’s fundamental connection with the hallowed land beneath our feet.

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Past Programmes

4 Mar – 17 Apr
ArtScience on Screen: The Modern Fables of Masaaki Yuasa

Yakitori, yakuza, and mermaids collide in the wonderfully kaleidoscopic genius mind of acclaimed Japanese animator and director Masaaki Yuasa.

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4 Mar – 17 Apr
ArtScience Museum x NOWNESS: Meditative Screens

Come witness how community, song, language and spirituality transcend chaos through an inextricable bond of hope across 4 very specially curated short films in conjunction with NOWNESS.

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25 Nov 2021 – 2 Mar 2022
ArtScience on Screen: Beyond Earth

Catch films about stories inspired by the vastness and unexplored corners of space, featuring a mix of animated classics, festival picks and artist works from this November to next February.

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11 – 31 Dec
Waves of Change Film Screenings

Waves of Change Festival 2021 features six exclusive documentaries focused on some of the key challenges facing the ocean, including the impact of overfishing and plastic pollution.

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1 Oct – 19 Nov
ArtScience on Screen: Textures Of The City

In partnership with the Singapore Pavillion At The Venice Biennale Singapore Pavilion at the 17 International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, and Archifest Singapore, ArtScience Museum is proud to present a curated programme of films as a love letter to cities – celebrating its urban spirit, textures, its people, and how we can all build a more inclusive world.

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3 Sep – 19 Nov
Extended Play: Videogames Meet Cinema

Extended Play: Videogames Meet Cinema contemplates the evolving, enduring relationship between games, digital culture and contemporary cinema.

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31 May – 1 Aug
Film Screenings: Wondrous Worlds

Catch a series of film screenings that illuminate the rich inner worlds and imaginations of the young and young-at-heart!

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1 – 30 Apr
ArtScience on Screen: One Year On

An ode to the journey of self-healing, ArtScience on Screen presents snippets of stories on feeling one’s way around crises as we observe one year since the first circuit breaker in April.

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1 – 31 Mar
ArtScience on Screen: Jacob, Mimmi and the Talking Dogs (2019)

Singapore Premiere – Can an imaginative boy, his know-it-all cousin and a pack of talking dogs save their happy neighborhood from a greedy developer? Don't miss the summer adventure movie Jacob, Mimmi and the Talking Dogs this March holidays at ArtScience Museum!

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From 30 Jan
ArtScience on Screen: Season of the Force

Accompanying the STAR WARS™ Identities exhibition is Season of the Force, a film programme that showcases the timeless appeal of the iconic space opera series, as well as providing insight into the films, directors and aesthetics which shaped George Lucas' art and laid the blueprint for the canon’s universe.

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From 5 Feb
Late Screenings: Three Times (2005)

Late nights are for romance and romance on films. Catch screenings of acclaimed director Hou Hsiao-Hsien’s Three Times (2005), starring Shu Qi and Chang Chen who bring an electrifying chemistry on screen playing lovers across three eras.

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1 – 28 Feb
ArtScience on Screen: Quantum Shorts

Quantum Shorts returns with an exciting mix of short films inspired by or related to the theme of quantum physics! Organised by the Centre for Quantum Technologies at the National University of Singapore, the film festival features narrative or abstract films by amateur and professional filmmakers motivated to tell their own stories about quantum physics since 2012.

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From 11 Jan
ArtScience on Screen: Micro-Commissions

During the unprecedented Circuit Breaker of 2020 when cinemas and museums were shut, the ArtScience Museum commissioned four established local filmmakers to create for the smallest of screens, and for the strangest of times. Covering a varied response of hope, resilience and a challenge to ponder a greater existence outside our immediate bubbles, these films are now symbolic of how the moving image has endured the unimaginable to make it to the big screen at the museum – you cannot miss it.

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From 28 Nov
Christmas Screenings: Adventures from Moominvalley

Celebrate a warm and whimsy Christmas this year at ArtScience Museum! ArtScience on Screen is bringing some festive cheer to the museum with a season-long screening of wintery themed episodes from Adventures from Moominvalley, the 1990-91 series that follows the magical quests of a young Moomin and his friends in the idyllic Moominvalley.

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7 – 27 Nov
ArtScience on Screen: New Ways of Seeing

ArtScience on Screen: New Ways of Seeing spotlights three artists – Ruth Asawa, Anna Campbell Bliss and Hilma af Klint – who defied categories of gender and genre in their artistic practice. Exploring the fields of art, science, mathematics and technology, their ground-breaking work encourage us to consider new perspectives in the creative possibilities across art and science, and re-examine a canon that often fails to articulate spaces for alternative voices.

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10 Oct – 6 Nov
ArtScience on Scream: Horror, Expressionism & The Moving Image

Don’t miss limited screenings of the iconic original 1920 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari in its full restored glory and a specially curated series of David Lynch short films at the museum!

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12 Sep – 9 Oct

ArtScience on Screen: Earth Watch presents a series of diverse films contemplating humanity's troubling relationship with planet Earth. Join us as we behold our role in the future of the world – will it be a hopeful one, or terrifying?

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17 Aug – 11 Sep

ArtScience on Screen returns to the museum this August with Ode to Invention! Catch four short films that celebrate the spirit of invention as we spotlight young inventors and their quirky creations.

Film still: Litterbugs (2016)

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Film still: Hoverboard (2012)

Screening together with Litterbugs from 24 – 30 Aug and 7 – 11 Sep
Film still: Icare (2017)

Screening from 31 Aug – 6 Sep
Film still: The MisInventions of Milo Weatherby (2009)

Screening from 17 – 23 Aug

Micro-Commissions

From 11 Nov

ArtScience on Screen: Prophecy

A collaboration between filmmaker Gladys Ng, writer Zoea Tania, and musician thistlemorse, the latest micro-commissioned film Prophecy invites audiences to contemplate our existence through vast and microscopic imageries. Don’t miss the livestream Q&A with the three creators on Wed, 11 Nov at 9pm!

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From 30 Sep

Sonorous Sketches: Visualising a Field Recording Dubplate

A new animated short ﬁlm by local artist Zai Tang comprising of experimental visualisations of soundscapes recorded in the Singaporean wild. Join us for a livestream discussion and Q&A on 30 Sept with Zai Tang.

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From 29 July

ArtScience on Screen: How Can I Tell I Miss You

The world has mysteriously fallen asleep. Traversing the borders between past, present, memory and consciousness, someone attempts to rouse it from its deep slumber – will she ever succeed? Don’t miss Eva Tang’s latest film commissioned for ArtScience On Screen.

Catch the livestream Q&A with Eva and her collaborators on the film, Renee Chua and Joe Ng on 26 August, 9pm!

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24 June

ArtScience on Screen: Late Spring

The very first in our newly-launched Micro-Commissions series, LATE SPRING is Singaporean filmmaker Lei Yuan Bin’s homage to the great film legend Yasujiro Ozu’s film of the same name.

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Screen Zine

Oct 2020

Scream Zine: The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari

Screen Zine goes full scream with a graphic guide to the visual and academic legacy of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari.

This horror edition features 5 local illustrators who re-imagine Caligari as local folklore, a quick-fire with a local architect firm on the horror(s) in architecture, and an experimental essay as poetic response to the iconic film.

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Jul 2020

Issue 1: Film as Art/Art as Film

The inaugural Screen Zine takes a quick peek at the role of the moving image in museums, some of the most creative and exciting works to cross between the film and art world, and of course – the importance of being Agnès (Varda).

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