Regina De Rozario: Notes, pictures, and other fragments

Somebody told somebody who got somebody to see our film Absence at Digital Homelands and then somebody got on the phone to ask me if we'd be okay with it if they showed it at the Venice Architectural Biennale this weekend.

Would we be okay with it? Hello, is the Pope Catholic?

I'm hazy on the details (as you can see) but from my very brief meeting with the curator, Zhang Wenjie, and some Googling, I learned that the event is

a) organised by DesignSingapore
b) will be held at the Singapore Pavillion in Venice
c) like the Venice Film Festival, part of the massive 'La Biennale di Venezia'

Absence will be one of six films that will be showcased this weekend.

Additionally, I learned that Wenjie's the new festival director of the Singapore Film Festival, and was previously behind the Moving Images programme at the Substation, and most recently the Cinematheque programme at the National Museum. He's also a very nice guy, and a friend of my former writing tutor Ben Slater. Small, small world.

He told me he was quite taken with Absence and was keen to see more. Naturally, I was chuffed. Compliments aside, it's always great to hear people sound off about your work, and say they like seeing what you like doing.

I told Jae the great news and we both agreed that despite the rejections and let downs and the urge to second-guess ourselves from time to time, we just need to make work and MAKE IT WORK.

And when Venice calls, we'll say 'Hell, yeah!'