ASEAN Para Games 2015 Opening Ceremony: film
ASEAN Para Games 2015 Opening Ceremony: film
The film on screen celebrates the best moments of the past seven ASEAN Para Games. 140 members of Redeafination, Singapore’s hip hop dance group for the Deaf, dance to a film installation created by Associate Visual Directors Michael Larsson and Timothy Chan. The music is composed by Ceremony director Philip Tan, using sounds made by goal ball. The performance invites us to enjoy dance and music with the Deaf. On screen we also see individual deaf dancers being highlighted, they correspond to the dancers on stage. Emerging artist Timothy Chan, 25, created paintings (for which Michael mobilised as materials for this film) by running paint under his wheelchair tyres. There are also digital drawings are based on X-ray images of his body, to show there’s beauty inside all of us. Diagnosed with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD) aged five, Timothy has used a wheelchair since 13 years of age. He is also a top chess player, representing Singapore in the 5th ASEAN Para Games in Kuala Lumpur in 2009, and was Champion in the 4th and 9th National Disability League in 2009 and 2014 respectively.
apg2015: ASEAN Para Games Opening Ceremony: behind-the-scenes film by Ngee Ann Polytechnic’s Transfixion
This is a profile of APG Opening and Closing Ceremonies Creative Team member, emerging designer and chess champion Timothy Chan. It is created by Transfixion, which consists of staff and students from the Infocomm Technology (NP-ICT) department of Singapore’s Ngee Ann Polytechnic. Led by lecturer Christina Mok, NP-ICT Transfixion Production consists of teaching associate Ho Si Hao as well as students Vittorio Carecci Wei Long, Siti Zalilah Binte Rosli, Godon Koh Wan Rong, and Syafiq Syahmi bin Zakariah. Over the period of 4 months, the tireless team captured rare behind-the-scenes footage and rehearsals which were shown at the Opening and Closing Ceremonies, as well as Medicorp TV. The results provide heartwarming and unique insights in to the sweat, tears, and tears of joy that went on behind the gloss of the final show.