For the fourth ancillary screening of the semester, NTU Film Society will be discussing ‘1987: Untracing the Conspiracy’ (2015) and ‘The May 13 Generation’ (2014) dir. Jason Soo!

Thank you to those who joined us for our fourth screening, check out our recap of what transpired here!

✏️ Director Jason Soo’s bio: 

Jason Soo is a human rights defender and an independent filmmaker who also documents historical and civil society events related to human rights. He is the recipient of the Jacques Derrida Exhibition and Prize (Melbourne, 1999).

His first narrative work (A Short Film on The May 13 Generation) is based on historical events in 1954 Singapore when 800 students took over Chinese High School in order to support classmates affected by military conscription.