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199621 minPGdocumentary

Moving House

199621 minPGdocumentary

A compulsory exhumation order led to the removal of a great-grandparents' grave at Lorong Panchar in Singapore in 1995.

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A compulsory exhumation order led to the removal of a great-grandparents' grave at Lorong Panchar in Singapore in 1995.

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Tan Pin Pin

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Lorong Panchar, off Sixth Avenue in Singapore, became the site of a compulsory exhumation in 1995. The grave of the director's great-grandparents was disturbed as part of this order. Tan Pin Pin documents the process and its implications in this 21-minute film, completed in 1996. The narrative includes the history of the director's great-grandfather, who immigrated from Xiamen, China, in the late 1800s and opened a crockery shop at Clive Terrace, now no longer standing.

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