With eight stories, Landmarks maps out the universal afflictions of love, desire and longing – of gay boys and men in straight Singapore (and the women who love them). Characterised by Alfian Sa’at’s wit and insight, Landmarks will take you on an entertaining and enlightening journey across the island’s pink map, from Ann Siang Hill to Fort Road, from comedy to elegy. It is one journey we promise you won’t soon forget.
Katong Fugue
Nora Samosir – Mother
Tan Shou Chen – Son
Secrets and ties: a son with a hidden life, a mother desperately trying to reach out. Will they break through the walls they have erected, or will they forever languish in a fugue of denial and disguise?
Supper at Maxwell
Chua Enlai – Danny
Pierre Goh – Gordon
What takes place after an evening of ogling and cruising at the clubs? More of the same, of course. Two buddies compare love notes in this affectionate and affecting comedy of bad table manners.
Raffles City Rendezvous
Bill Ang – Mike
Phin Wong – Kiat
Where does sex end and love begin, and how does one negotiate the treacherous territory in between? A couple finds out… when they celebrate their third anniversary with a threesome.
California Dreaming
Harris Zaidi – Jeff
Bonni Sta Maria – Leon
Sebastian Tan – Jin Han
It’s 8 August, the day of the scene’s loudest, proudest party, but not every circuit boy is raring to brandish the rainbow flag. A wickedly funny, brutally pointed inquiry into the true meaning of freedom.
The Kings of Ann Siang Hill
Tony Quek – Wee Kim
Ben Xiao – Alan
Terry Tan – Young Man
Classic bathhouse scenario: fiftysomething uncle approaches haughty young stud. Will it all end in humiliation, as we expect and dread, or are things perhaps not as obvious as they seem?
Downstream, Delta
Robin Goh – Felix
Brendon Fernandez – Jack
Barely submerged hopes and heartbreak rise to the surface, as two men – one straight, one gay – reminisce about a friendship that develops from a failed pick-up attempt at the pool…
My Own Private Toa Payoh
Micheas Chan – Aloysius
Alex Ng – Meng
A two-room flat becomes home, sanctuary, world – in this deeply felt and moving story about two rent boys with not much to get by except their love, their dreams, and all their tomorrows.
The Widow of Fort Road
Serene Chen – Sandra
Loong Seng Onn – Kelvin
A woman is visited by an ex-colleague, whom she used to have a crush on – in the days before the life he’d kept hidden was wrenched from him, publicly laid bare, and shattered.
