Screening of Daniel Hui’s 2024 film ‘The Small Hours of the Night’. Guest curated by Julian Ross & May Adadol Ingawanij as part of Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (BEFF7).

“Largely unfolding within the four walls of a smoke-filled room, Daniel Hui’s atmospheric chamber drama is a daring fever dream—and a rare cinematic foray into Singapore’s political history. In the 1960s, in the newly independent city-state, a man interrogates a woman who, over the course of a rainy night, begins to channel voices from the future. Drawing on real-life court testimonies from the 1970 and ’80s, sometimes verbatim, Hui’s austere docu-fiction conjures the absurdities and cruelties of statecraft. Shot on black-and-white 16mm film, the smoke and shadows that envelop each glance and gesture evoke multitudes of defendants—here coalescing in a single protagonist—who cycled through a merciless court of law. While this blurring of identities sends the story spiraling into delirium, Hui’s commitment to exploring truth remains stoically certain” – (MoMA Doc Fortnight)

The film’s director will be present.