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A film by Tan Siyou 24 October · Genesis Cinema, London
With @bunbites_screening Director Siyou Tan will join an online Q&A after the film, moderated by Dr Shzr Ee Tan (Royal Holloway, University of London). A lion’s head, a fish’s body. What other shapes might a girl take? In Tan Siyou’s AMOEBA, four misfits at an all-girls school form a secret gang. Borrowing stories and rituals from an older generation of gangsters, they begin to imagine other ways of belonging. In her director’s statement, Tan recalls growing up with the feeling that “the shape was already decided for me.” School was preparing her for roles she had not chosen. Among friends, however, other possibilities emerged: girls could call one another brothers, invent their own loyalties, and find intimacy beyond the futures prescribed for them. What draws us to AMOEBA is the unruly energy of trying things out. Friendship, attraction and identification brush up against one another. Wanting someone can become entangled with wanting to be like them. Playing a role can become a way of discovering what else you might be. The Merlion’s hybrid body offers a playful entry into these questions. A creature assembled from different forms becomes a familiar national symbol; the girls growing up within that nation are expected to follow much narrower paths. What happens when they begin making up stories of their own? We bring AMOEBA into Revolutionary Girls to explore how girls borrow, perform and remake the roles available to them and how growing up might include having a say in the shape of your own life. ⏰ Saturday 24 October, 18:20 📍 Genesis Cinema, 93–95 Mile End Road, London E1 4UJ
🎫 link in bio / Genesis Cinema
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In Singapore, four teenage girls at an elite school decided to start a gang together. This is how Siyou Tan’s debut feature Amoeba starts. Bun Bites Screening will show Amoeba on 24 October, exploring the many different forms of girlhood. Director Siyou Tan will join an online Q&A after the film, moderated by Dr Shzr Ee Tan (Royal Holloway, University of London). ⏰ Time: Saturday 24 October, 18:20
📍 Venue: Genesis Cinema, 93–95 Mile End Road, London E1 4UJ
🎫 Tickets: Genesis Cinema’s website
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“Does the Merlion really exist?” In Amoeba, the latest coming-of-age film from Singapore, four girls at an elite school ask exactly this question. Director Siyou Tan’s debut feature portrays a fluid and rebellious girlhood. The girls defend their right to nap, explore caves, form a girl gang, and try to catch a ghost on a DV camera. Together, these moments stir something restless within a neat and orderly Singaporean school. Bun Bites Screening will screen Amoeba on 10.24, exploring the many different forms of girlhood. Director Siyou Tan will join an online Q&A after the film, moderated by Dr Shzr Ee Tan (Royal Holloway, University of London). ⏰ Saturday 24 October, 18:20 📍 Genesis Cinema, 93–95 Mile End Road, London E1 4UJ 🎫 link in bio / Genesis Cinema This screening is supported by @revo_lutionarygirl Following the screening, we are partnering with artist Youjia @yukayukaq to host “Between the Bells”, a creative writing workshop at The Feminist Library on 25 October. The workshop will continue exploring friendship between high school girls and East Asian coming-of-age stories. ⏰ Sunday 25 October, 14:00 
📍 The Feminist Library, 161 Sumner Road, London SE15 6JL
🎫 The Feminist Library website or bio link (free for 24 October screening ticket holders with proof of purchase) More details coming soon in our next post.
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AMOEBA by SIYOU TAN NEW YORK PREMIERE Q&A with SIYOU TAN moderated by CRISTINE BRACHE FRIDAY, OCTOBER 16 at 7PM ROXY CINEMA TICKETS NOW AVAILABLE AT WWW.THEDOWNTOWNFESTIVAL.COM
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one year anniversary to the amazing adventure @tiff_net was @amoeba.mov world wide premiere 🥹 $525??? my favourite memory from the whole experience. Us in the green room just before watching the film, feeling everything all at once behind the scenes & the photos! on the Chinese news! (low key sweating) Amoeba nails for the occasion @st.gen with us in fish spirit the gang the bigger gang! 🥹🥹
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2025 12月のマンスリー絵日記 🍷 December Journal ‪ꔛ 2025的手帳完結！！！！！拖延症有夠嚴重 要開始po 2026手帳了 再接再厲 ♬(ノ゜∇゜)ノ♩ #手帳拼貼 #journaling #journalwithme
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Brain Food #8: Amoeba 🔖 Film I keep thinking about how easy it is to leave one system and still carry its logic with you. You can choose a different school, job, city, life, and still be measuring yourself by the same old rules like your achievement, usefulness or approval. The need to prove that the choice was worth it. That is what @amoeba.mov left me with. Not whether rebellion is good or bad, but how difficult it is to tell when you are actually choosing freely, and when you are just reacting to the thing you wanted to escape. 🫧 Brain Food is a series about building taste by forming our own thoughts, instead of just collecting other people’s opinions.
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Upcoming limited screenings out for the beloved AMOEBA – don't miss them! 🐠 Tue 18 Aug, 4:30pm Wed 19 Aug, 8pm Thu 20 Aug, 8:30pm Tue 25 Aug, 8pm Celebrate local cinema with GOT TIME FOR CINEMA? this August at Filmhouse. Tickets available at filmhouse.sg or at our box office!
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@amoeba.mov captured through my digicam! maybe it was life imitating art because while the girls in the film have a camcorder, I had my little dig cam too! & just like the girl I wanted to capture everything. So in honour of our upcoming screenings, here’s more bts of this very very special journey.
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Director Siyou Tan (@seeuoo) joins us on Friday, July 24th for a Q+A following a screening of AMOEBA (2025), a shot-in-the-arm of emancipatory energy that thumbs its nose at the Singaporean culture of state-enforced decorum, featuring one of the most charming central ensembles in recent memory.⁠ ⁠ 👯 Part of our series, Among Friends, a program of films that united by their heightened, sensitive attention to the intricate, subtle, and oft-unspoken dynamics of female friendships.
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De zestienjarige Choo hunkert in het traditionele Singapore naar vrijheid. “We waren jong, we waren aan het spelen. En dan pop! Ineens niet meer. En ben je dood.” Lees het volledige artikel in de link in onze bio. ✍️ Ronald Rovers 📷 still Amoeba
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