Three Flats
Director Yuan Bin Lei
Countries Singapore
Duration 89 min
Synopsis
Housing, heartland, and maybe, home. Amidst the backdrop of Singapore’s celebrated and politicized public housing intended for families, Three Flats follows the domestic existence of three single women, who at different stages of their lives, strive for independence. The film juxtaposes the nationalistic ambitions of a state-driven housing program against the occupants’ struggles to preserve personal routines, traditions and aspirations. Three Flats embodies prosaic domesticity, wherein ironically, existence becomes spontaneous, and life, begins to escape formulation.
Housing, heartland, and maybe, home. Amidst the backdrop of Singapore’s celebrated and politicized public housing intended for families, Three Flats follows the domestic existence of three single women, who at different stages of their lives, strive for independence. The film juxtaposes the nationalistic ambitions of a state-driven housing program against the occupants’ struggles to preserve personal routines, traditions and aspirations. Three Flats embodies prosaic domesticity, wherein ironically, existence becomes spontaneous, and life, begins to escape formulation.