Fog rises and churns over a disused quarry. In a cleared forest, a wild boar stands and stares. Mynas follow in the wake of grass mowers, opportunistic and hungry.
In the mostly urban city-state of Singapore, nature flourishes in pockets, but its growth is also curtailed in a process of continuous and conscientious human labour. As such, any natural growth here runs up against opposing forces of control, but also finds gaps for free expression. Against this reality, Singapore—A Growing Nation explores the complex and contradictory interplay between nature and urbanity, non-human and human, allowing for a sense of openness and radical mystery to be revealed in the everyday.
The film is a response to Chua Mia Tee: Directing the Real, Chua’s solo exhibition that focuses on the works that he made between the 1950s to 1980s. The work addresses Chua’s documentation of the industrialisation and urbanisation of modern, post-independence Singapore (especially its people and infrastructure), by providing a missing perspective on Singapore’s development.
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