Curry Fish Head
-Animation
Director: Srinivas Bhakta
Country: Singapore
Length: 7min 25s
Language: English
Subtitle: English, Japanese
Completed date: 2014
Story of a girl in midst of ever changing landscape of Singapore from late 60’s to present day.
Director: Srinivas Bhakta
Writer: Srinivas Bhakta
Producer: Srinivas Bhakta
DP: Srinivas Bhakta
Editor: Srinivas Bhakta
Film Festival Awards:
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Country Best Award, IOFF, Bangladesh 2016
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Best Technical Production, HSFC, Singapore 2016
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2nd Runner- Up, HSFC, Singapore 2016
Film Festivals Appearances:
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Goldensun Short Film Festival, Malta 2016
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Obscura Festival of Photography, Penang 2016
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Art in Your Neighbourhood, Singapore 2016
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National Day Celebrations, Singapore 2016
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‘Something to Write Home About' , New York 2015
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Esplanade, Singapore 2015
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Animasyros Intl Animation Festival, Athens 2014
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FIA, Uruguay 2014
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16th Digicon 6, Singapore 2014
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Panorama, Animamundi, Brazil 2014
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11th Singapore Short Cuts, Singapore 2014
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KLIK! Amsterdam Animation Festival, Amsterdam 2014
Directors's message:
The Effort was to draw a parallel connection between ever changing landscape of Singapore and a simple ‘cycle of life’ kind of story of a woman. Some of the key events are suggested by introducing popular landmarks and iconic images. Images treated with Peranakan patterns and textures to provide Singapore flavor to the visual experience.
About the filmmaker
Srinivas Bhakta is a graduate of National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, India, with Visual Communication and Graphic Design and specialization in Animation Design. Currently working as a Senior Lecturer at School of Interactive & Digital Media, Nanyang Polytechnic, Singapore. Besides teaching animation and design related subjects he has created many short animation films which have been shown in prestigious international film festivals like Annecy, Hiroshima and Animamundi.
His film- ‘Elephant: OK’ has bagged 3 awards including a ‘special Jury prize’ at Singapore International Festival Silver Screen Awards. This film was also turned into a children’s book published by Puffin, New Zealand. ‘My Father Is A Washerman’ has won First prize at Digicon6 Singapore chapter and ‘Frog In A Well’ has won “Creativity Award” in Japan Digicon6 Competition.
