WRONG TURN short silent film :Still Camera as Cinema: Experimenting with still cameras and post production methods to create moving images with maximum amout of detail and resolution. Cameras experimented with canon -1ds mark3 - this work is stil in progress

Sponsors CANON singapore
Black Magic Design Singapore
Spitz productions

First screened and performed at the 4th Singapore Short Cuts at the National Museum of Singapore curated by Wen jie

some links of feedback online about wrong turn from

sgfilm forum
Wrong Turn was visually stunning and driven by quite a unique "hyperreality vs reality" concept. Cld see it was skilfully made by a veteran.

a NutShell Review by Stefen S
This is a visually beautiful film. The jungle never looked so nice, and so real, and what more, the soundtrack/effects for the film was performed live. Watching the movie, the first thought that came to mind was, this could be a localised version of JJ Abrams' Lost, where you see a host of characters, from a schoolboy to a security guard, looking perplexed, and testing the area they're stuck in for a communications signal. Slowly they realize they only have one another to count on, to survive in that strange environment, coupled with that parting end shot.

SINEMA <>The session kicked off with Charles Lim 's “ Wrong Turn ”, which had live music playing while action continued onscreen, producing more of a video art piece than a short film per se. Depicting “several urban archetypes of Singapore” all apparently lost in a jungle, the film was a delightful experiment in hyperrealism with a landscape of overtly bright jungle green, emphasizing the bewilderment of the displaced characters. Shot entirely with a still camera, actors had to move very slowly to achieve the stop-motion-like effects onscreen. The show's live backing music also included a live jungle soundscape fed in real-time using a phone call director Lim made to his friend during the screening. “Wrong Turn” certainly impressed one with its attention to form and blending of performance vocabularies.

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