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Singapore GaGa
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Singapore GaGa

Aug 24, 2005
0h 55m
★ 0.0

Overview

Singapore GaGa is a 55-minute paean to the quirkiness of the Singaporean aural landscape. It reveals Singapore's past and present with a delight and humour that makes it a necessary film for all Singaporeans. We hear buskers, street vendors, school cheerleaders sing hymns to themselves and to their communities. From these vocabularies (including Arabic, Latin, Hainanese), a sense of what it might mean to be a modern Singaporean emerges. This is Singapore's first documentary to have a cinema release. With English and Chinese subtitles.

Genres

Documentary

Cast

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Melvyn Cedello

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Victor Khoo

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Hong Chow Yew

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Margaret Leng Tan

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Juanita Melson

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