A dirge for Singapore and a prophecy for its demise. A prevision of its build-up of mouth-gagging noise, cracking facades, exposed flesh and percolating wastes. A visceral assault of distorted guitars and found sounds, juxtaposed with blistering found footage, Blueprints for Volition City was created entirely via stop-motion with hand-manipulated photographic prints. Featuring guitar work by Kelvin Tan of The Oddfellows.

Toh Hun Ping is a video artist, experimental filmmaker and film researcher. His video works explore and express themes of mental instability, alternate realities, resistance and existence. He employs experimental moving image-making methods from film-scratching, bleaching photographs, merging materials (mud, meat, nails) with video stills, to stop-motion animation with ceramic reliefs. The works have been presented in exhibitions and film festivals in Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei, Paris, Seoul, Tokyo, Boston and Bangkok. As a film researcher, he is investigating the history of filmmaking in early-mid 20th century Singapore, and has served as researcher-writer and video editor for projects organised by The National Museum of Singapore and Asian Film Archive (‘State of Motion’). He also started the Singapore Film Locations Archive, a private video collection of films made in and about Singapore, and runs a website about the intrigues of old Singapore film locations (sgfilmlocations.com).

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