Bukit Brown Voices

  • Genre: Documentary
  • Run time: 46 min
  • Premiere: 2013. January 20.

Singapore's oldest cemetery is in an area known as BUKIT BROWN. In 2011, the Singapore Government announced that the construction of an 8-lane roadway cutting through the heart of the area would begin in two years. In its final year as an intact cemetery - during the grave-sweeping festival of Qing Ming - we speak to the descendants of those buried in Bukit Brown's jungled hills and witness age-old rituals passed down through generations. Through their voices, we see the cemetery, not as a place of the dead, but a site filled with memories and living heritage. Revealed too is the unexpected beauty of a Singapore that visitors rarely see - a secret garden hidden behind the gleaming towers of this Asian metropolis.

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Camera

Brian McDiarmant

Director of Photography

Directing

Su-Mae Khoo

Director

Camera

Brian McDiarmant

Director of Photography

Directing

Su-Mae Khoo

Director