The Impossibility of Knowing
Director Tan Pin Pin
Countries Singapore
Duration 12 min
Synopsis
I often wonder if a video camera can capture the aura of a space that has experienced trauma. I made a list of places I knew about where accidents had happened and we filmed them. But my camera did not “capture” anything. It could be due to the limitations of physics, but the canal remained a canal, the house, a house.... Maybe the aura we sought doesn’t exist or we just did not have the requisite gift to see the aura. Maybe you can see better than us.
I often wonder if a video camera can capture the aura of a space that has experienced trauma. I made a list of places I knew about where accidents had happened and we filmed them. But my camera did not “capture” anything. It could be due to the limitations of physics, but the canal remained a canal, the house, a house.... Maybe the aura we sought doesn’t exist or we just did not have the requisite gift to see the aura. Maybe you can see better than us.