Exposure
Welcome to NTU Film Society’s in-house publication.
Reviews of works, especially positive, that help an audience regard the film deeper.Op-eds or dissenting pieces that provide something different from the mainstream.Reviews, criticisms or pieces that view the art through a new, specific or varied lens.Essays that delve deeper into the theoretical aspects of film, often academic in nature.
Gillo Pontecorvo says: Arise, Wretched of the Earth!
Through an incisive comparison of Gillo Pontecorvo’s 1966 La Bataille D’Algers and Frantz Fanon’s 1961 Wretched of the Earth, Umar Al Khair Bin Zainal Muttakin pens a powerful essay about colonialism, rooted in both the past and the present.
The Cult of The Room
Honorary General Secretary Shariffah Ili Hamraa dissects Tommy Wiseau’s The Room (2003) and explores what gives it its cult status.
Terminally Online Femmes in the Slasher House
Mimi Ssa exposes the gothic nature of disconnection within Bodies Bodies Bodies (2022) within spaces occupied by youth growing up on the internet.
“Yes, his existence mattered.”: Emotional Resonance in Kogonada’s After Yang
Kishore Kalaichalvan ruminates on Kogonada’s film After Yang (2021), about a family living in a futuristic America that is faced with love and loss after their AI helper breaks down.
How Does One Responsibly Represent a Filmic Queer Reality?
Content Creator Goh Cheng Hao questions the portrayal of queerness within film.
Rouge: A Study of Hauntology and Nostalgia
Content Creator Phyllis Chan reflects on NTU Film Society’s recent film of discussion, Stanley Kwan’s Rouge (1987), through the lens of Derrida’s Hauntology.
The Art of Adaptation in “Adaptation”
Vice-President Fidel Tan kickstarts our publication Exposure by exploring Spike Jonze’s meta-dramedy film, Adaptation, based on Susan Orlean’s 1998 nonfiction book The Orchid Thief.