Now & Again: Cinema (Issue 05)

Alyshea Mo (she/her)
Alyshea is a multidisciplinary artist who received her BFA (Hons) from the University of the Arts London, Chelsea College of Art in 2020. Her work primarily involves painting, video/sound installations and working with dyes. Her practice focuses around the notion of belonging in in-between spaces, exploring themes of melancholy, queerness, religion and the Uncanny through mundane surrealistic images. Her day-to-day is spent painting, from tiny canvases to large wall murals all around Singapore and running her own brand BY ALYMO. The BY ALYMO collection includes her original oil paintings, art prints, hand-dyed apparel and more. She also edits and co-runs the internationally published arts magazine Now & Again.

Charlie Adamson-Hammond (she/her)
Charlie is a UK-based artist, whose works include writing, videos, ceramics and print, and revolves around everyday consumption and domestic life. Her works frequently make use of the photocopier to distort photographs, stock images, adverts and other found objects.

Chen Yi An (he/him)
Yi An is the founder and editor of Now & Again. A London-based designer, Yi An’s works look at elevating and shifting our perspectives of mundane experiences. To achieve this, his projects typically explore repurposing secondhand and discarded materials, finding alternative functions to objects that we interact with on a day-to-day basis. He also enjoys experimenting with the potential properties of light and how light can play a part in shaping a physical experience. Yi An is an avid enthusiast of indie publications, and revels in how we can push print to be an effective creative medium. For his line of work, Yi An is the designer of the DUNA Films team, a creative production company, where he does any design work he can manage, including graphics, website layouts, print, art direction and styling.

Chiara Scoglio (they/she)
Chiara is a London-based visual artist, writer and puppetry theatre-maker from Italy, whose previous works include the short play The Relativity of the Mirror (ACT II Festival, London, 2021), the showcases Piracy and Tarantasio (High Tide Festival, Gravesend, 2021; It Was Fated..., London, 2022; Mirror Mirror, Peripeteia Theatre Company, 2023) and the short film To Think Inside the Box (Pebbles Underground Film and Video Art; Madness Film Festival; Octopus Marquee Film Festival, 2023; Kalakari Film Festival, 2024). In 2023, they created the puppetry, object and experimental theatre collective Chicken Shop Hermits alongside Hector T. J. Huang. Other academic and creative writing credits include EYESORE Magazine, Dare-Zine, Now & Again and HOB. Chiara’s works always attempt to merge words and visuals while exploring their sense of self in a patchwork of inspirations and impressions.

Dan Tran (he/him)
Dan Tran is a writer and imagemaker who seeks to explore how visual cultures can illuminate the blind spots of society. His writings have been featured in Art & Market, Singapore International Film Festival, and Matca, while his image-based works have been exhibited at Objectifs and NUS Museum. Dan also works as a software engineer.

DUNA
DUNA is an impact-first creative production studio based across London, Bristol and Devon in the UK. As a team of creatives, they strive to make environmental and social impact through considered content and effective storytelling, producing short films, documentaries, campaign content and live events.

Eeshwa Jiwan (she/they)
Eeshwa is a photographer based out of Delhi, India. Growing up in a creative environment with an art director dad and graphic designer mum, she discovered that her passions lie somewhere in the vast mists of storytelling. Her inspiration lies in the diverse, vibrant and rich roots of Indian culture. Her works look at themes of ecofeminism, womanhood, hinduism and environmentalism. Apart from photography and writing, her interests lie in the climate crisis, spirituality, activism and music.

Jessica Heng (she/her)
Jessica is a filmmaker interested in visceral stories that harbour empathy. Her most recent works include Baby Boy (2020), Just A Call Away (2020) and Breaking News (2022), which have screened at regional film festivals including Minikino Film Week, Kota Kinabalu International Film Festival and Singapore International Film Festival. She is interested in stories of communities on-the-fringe, and believes art-making to be essential in amplifying obscured stories. In her free time, she can be found by the beach or tinkering with the next community project, one of which has culminated in a humble film club that gathers to watch themed films each month.

Juan Foo (he/him)
Juan is candidly regarded as the pioneer independent producer who is ‘still’ around for the past twenty years. He produced Singapore’s first digital film, Return To Pontianak (1999), the first HD feature Dirty Laundry (2001) and indie-cult film Perth (2005). His experience includes script reading and distribution for a film finance company, as well as freelancing in editing and production. Graduating from film school and holding qualifications in creative producing and entrepreneurship, Juan trained in traditional cel animation and worked briefly in Japanese anime. He was the associate producer for films such as Road Less Travelled (1997), Talking Cock The Movie (2002), and Unarmed Combat (2005). He also produced Singapore's first creature monster film, Circle Line (2023) that is currently on Netflix.

Juliana Tan (she/her)
Juliana is a Singapore-based photographer and director. Trained as a filmmaker, she creates scenes that convey the narrative of her images through an eclectic mix of light, colours and composition. Her passion lies in portraiture and picture essays, especially in the areas of culture, politics and society.

Julieta Tetelbaum (she/her)
Julieta is a neurodivergent queer film director, cinematographer, screenwriter, and sculptor based in London. Her multifaceted artistic vision delves into themes such as gender, feminism, childhood, violence, intimacy, functional diversity and sexuality, consistently pushing the boundaries of conventional storytelling and traditional cinematic norms. Tetelbaum's short films, including The Misfortune of Femininity (2020), Wake Up! It's Yesterday (2021), Black Chalk (2022), and Joy (2023), have garnered international acclaim. Her works are part of the esteemed collection in Argentina’s Library of Congress and have been showcased in prestigious museums, art galleries, urban spaces, and over 200 international film festivals worldwide.

Koushik Banerjea (he/him)
Koushik is the author of two novels, both written while the sole carer for his late mother, Another Kind of Concrete (Jacaranda 2020) & Category Unknown (London Books 2022). His short stories have appeared in Jerry Jazz Musician, Salvation in Stereo, Minor Literatures, Verbal, Writers Resist, and in the crime fiction anthologies, Shots in the Dark and Shots in the Dark II. His poetry has featured in Third Space, Mogadored, Razur Cuts, Verbal, Scumbag Press and online in House of Poetry magazine. A former youth worker and DJ, he has also previously worked as a journalist. He is a south Londoner born and raised, and the son of Partition Refugees.

Matthias Ley (he/him)
Matthias Ley is a German photographer and visual artist who lived nearly half of his adult life in Asia. After twenty years in Japan, he spent the last decade between Munich and Seoul. He is currently working on personal long-term projects about urban spaces and daily life in cities such as Seoul and Tokyo. While he continues to take photographs with analogue cameras in a 4:5 aspect ratio, he now also enjoys looking at the world through the cinematic 16:9 frame.

Maximillian Gottwald (he/him)
Maximilian studied Photo Design at the Munich University of Applied Sciences (formerly Fachakademie für Fotodesign) and, due to his passion for the built environment, focused on architectural photography early on in his studies. His works now focus on travel and documentary photography. He is particularly interested in the sometimes surreal-looking cityscapes and impressions of Asian cities. Maximilian is represented by the architectural picture agency Poolima and photographers’ gallery Selected Views, and is a member of the Federal Association of Architectural Photography BVAF e.V.

Nadiah Rosli (she/her)
Nadiah Rosli is a graphic designer and illustrator based in Singapore after receiving her Bachelor’s Degree in Design Communication at LASALLE College of the Arts. Her interest revolves around design through image and craft-making with a fascination for larger-than-life possibilities. In particular, she enjoys telling stories through eccentric colours, funky illustrations and a little noise. When she is not hunched over at her laptop, she is often sighted at the nearest karaoke bar or playing chase with her wide-eyed crack-injected cat named Boolat.

Nicholas Lee (he/him)
Nicholas Lee is a filmmaker based in Singapore. Growing up with Hong Kong action films, his passion for genre films pushes him to create works that touch on social issues merged with elements of violence and absurdity. As a screenwriter and cinematographer, he understands how the story is the essence of the film and how to use the power of visuals to complement it. He believes that the feelings images convey are often more important than visual aesthetics, which pushes him to constantly try different things.

SafTo
Safiah Noorhimli (she/her) & Toni Esan (he/him)
In a serendipitous convergence at a piano in the UK, Toni and Safiah’s physical worlds briefly intertwine, setting the stage for a creative collaboration. Safiah, in her quest for the deeper mysteries of existence, immerses herself in the discipline of architecture, drawing her closer to the pursuit of beauty, conservation and human connection. Her keen appreciation for film naturally extends this exploration. Toni shares this journey through the lens of emerging technology, harnessing its subtle power to enhance everyday life. As a flora and fauna appreciator by day, and designer-entrepreneur by night, he channels these sensitivities into his visionary creations. Recently joining the Letterboxd hive and venturing into content creation, he finds this open call to be the perfect opportunity to express his ideas.

Tan Yi Hng (he/she)
Based in Singapore, Yi Hng melds film and dance as his main mediums of expression. Acting as the auteur of his films, he frequently plays multiple roles on-screen as the movement artist and choreographer, and off-screen as the screenwriter, director, producer and editor. Following multiple official selections across the US, UK, Portugal, Czech Republic and Singapore, he has also won awards for his 2022 short film re: (Best International Film and Best Overall Cinematography in InShadow 2023, Audience Choice Award in Opine Dance Film Festival 2024) His artistic focus puts movement at the forefront of his stories, exploring shared momentum and spatial relationship between the mover, site, camera and edit to convey his message. In 2024, he is focusing on developing his interest in site specific movement-based documentation.

TINYZIN3
TINYZIN3 is a collaborative and process-driven space by Elsa Wong and Amberlyn Lai, exploring the likeness of objects and humans through moving image and photography stills. While they focus on presenting their works in print and zines, they are working towards sculpting these documentations into functional objects and textiles.

Tom Cherrie (he/him)
Based in London, Tom is a filmmaker, writer and B-boy from Somerset, England. He spent four years studying acting and theatre before going on to do a bachelor's degree in Film Practice. He is fascinated by experimental filmmaking and non-traditional styles of narrative on screen, and his biggest artistic influences are David Lynch and MF Doom.

Vincent Quek (he/him)
Vincent is the founder of Anticipate Pictures, a Singapore film distribution company that focuses on bringing feature-length arthouse, independent films and documentaries from around the world into the Singapore market for meaningful distribution. Recent and notable releases include Aftersun (2022), Triangle of Sadness (2022), Fire of Love (2022), The Worst Person in the World (2021) and Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019). Before Anticipate, he worked at The Substation for the Moving Images programme, a non-profit arts centre that organised events to deepen and encourage the development of local filmmakers, as well as to promote their works in Singapore and abroad. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Magna Cum Laude) in Film Production from the USC School of Cinematic Arts.