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Tan Pin Pin
8 Days
|February 08, 2018
The award-winning documentarian, 48, on her latest, In Time to Come, her Game of Thrones phobia, and memories of working on Under One Roof.
8 DAYS: Your latest docu, In Time to Come, released last September, revolves around time capsules. Why time capsules? TAN PIN PIN: First of all, we wanted to draw attention to things people would not otherwise notice. When we were editing, we felt we needed a device to contain all these images. The time capsules would be perfect as the documentary itself would be a time capsule. It's also more along the lines of time travel. When I was nine years old in 1972, I saw a time capsule buried and it was due to be opened in 2002 — 40 years later. As a child, I thought, “That's so far away! I would be so old by then.” It’s interesting because time capsules are objects buried in the past for the future. I love the idea where an object is able to hold the past, present and future. Which is something I feel a documentary can do. The film contains a scene where an old time capsule is exhumed. What items recovered from that capsule surprised you the most? The bottle of river water circa 1990. There were also mysterious tree stumps that turned out to be the first trees Lee Kuan Yew ever planted.
This story is from the February 08, 2018 edition of 8 Days.
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