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ArtScience Cinema

ArtScience Cinema is ArtScience Museum's first purpose-built screening room. It presents a diverse range of curated programming that includes feature films, cinematic retrospectives, film festival selections, documentaries and more. ArtScience Cinema boasts spacious, comfortable seating and high-quality surround-sound wireless headphones for a truly immersive cinematic experience.

 

Please refer to the FAQs before booking your ticket.

Free Screenings: Video Diaries

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Free Screenings: Video Diaries

Apr - May

52 min 

 

Video Diaries is a short film programme that explores the profound but slippery nature of memory and identity. The title takes its reference from diaristic modes of filmmaking that weave archival videos with intimate, organic conversations shot on Super 8 and VHS.
 

Featuring Ash Goh Hua's 'The Feeling of Being Close to You', Giselle Lin's 'I look into the mirror and repeat to myself' and Natalie Soh's 'the light gleams an instant,'.

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Free screenings: Dreams, Memories and Invisible Worlds Within

Apr

PG13 (Brief Coarse Language) | 34min screened on loop

Showtimes
1 to 6 Apr
Mon to Fri:  11am to 6.10pm
Sat & Sun: 11am to 4.20pm
 

7 to 30 Apr
Mon to Thu: 11am to 6.10pm
 

The mind matters - this mesmerising collection of five animated shorts from the prestigious GOBELINS Paris School of Animation explore the complexities of our memories, our minds, and who we are.

This film programme is in conjunction with Mind and Body: The Art and Science of Being Human, an exploration of what it means to think, feel, and exist as human beings.
 

Image credit: GOBELINS Paris.

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The Cell (2000), dir. Tarsem Singh

The Cell (2000), dir. Tarsem Singh

Apr - May
107min | M18 (Gory violence)
 

A sprinkle of Satoshi Kon's Paprika- a dash of Nolan's Inception- and some heavy dosage of Lynchian surrealism - welcome to the deliciously delirious world of Tarsem Singh's The Cell. Combining the exquisite costume work of Oscar-winning designer Eiko Ishioka with provocative references to Damien Hirst, The Cell is one heck of a neuro trip between a determined psychologist (Jennifer Lopez) and a demented criminal (Vincent D'Onofrio). In an attempt to unravel the trauma of the criminal subconscious using experimental tech, they both engage in a dangerous theater of cat-and-mouse - where the line between sanity and reality hangs by a thread.
 

In conjunction with Mind and Body: The Art and Science of Being Human, an exploration of what it means to think, feel, and exist as human beings. 
 

Image: © 2025 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Bram Stoker's Dracula (1992), dir. Francis Ford Coppola

Apr - May
127min | M18 (Sexual scenes and horror)
 

Francis Ford Coppola's maximalist masterpiece is a faithful retelling of Bram Stoker's iconic vampire novel. Having consulted late Victorian neuroscientists and his brother - a renowned brain surgeon - Stoker weaves in the mind-body disconnect to construct a richly layered tale of grief, love and vengeance - all anchored by nightmarish projections of the subconscious surrounding the myth of Vlad Dracula. Anchored by the ravishing costume design of Eiko Ishioka (who won the Oscar) as well as the jaw-dropping performances from a star-studded cast of Winona Ryder, Gary Oldman, Monica Bellucci and Keanu Reeves, Bram Stoker's Dracula is a visual spectacle not to be missed.
 

In conjunction with Mind and Body: The Art and Science of Being Human, an exploration of what it means to think, feel, and exist as human beings. 
 

Image: © 1992 Sony Pictures, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Coming Soon

  • Inside Out 1 (2015), dir. Pete Doctor
    Inside Out 1 (2015), dir. Pete Doctor

    May - Jun
    95min | PG

    Showtimes
    1 to 15 May
    Mon to Thu: 11am / 1pm / 3pm / 5pm

    19 to 31 May
    Daily: 11am / 1pm / 3pm / 5pm

    24 May, Sat - NO 3pm & 5pm screenings
    25 May, Sun - NO 5pm screening
    31 May, Sat - NO 5pm screening

    When 11-year-old Riley moves to a new city, her Emotions team up to help her through the transition. Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness work together, but when Joy and Sadness get lost, they must journey through unfamiliar places to get back home. 

    In conjunction with Mind and Body: The Art and Science of Being Human, an exploration of what it means to think, feel, and exist as human beings. 

    Image: © 2015 Disney/Pixar

  • Burn From Absence (2024), dir. Emeline Courcier
    Burn From Absence (2024), dir. Emeline Courcier

    May - Jun
    30min | Rating TBC

    Showtimes
    Sat
    10, 17, 24, 31 May - 7.20pm
    11, 14, 21 May - 7.20pm
     

    Four-channel film screening - the film will be played across 4 screens at ArtScience Cinema.

    In biracial artist Emeline Courcier's BURN FROM ABSENCE, she attempts to reconstruct lost memories of her maternal family who had gone through the Vietnam War - her grandmother had burned all photographs of that traumatic history in an act of defiant resilience. Using AI technology and voices of her family from phone calls, she retraces their faces, places, and lives as a docu-fiction experiment, crafting memory as a form of persevering inheritance, and measuring the distance of trauma. 

    Emeline Courcier will be present for an in-person post-screening Q&A on 24th May, Saturday.

    In conjunction with Mind and Body: The Art and Science of Being Human, an exploration of what it means to think, feel, and exist as human beings.   
     

    Image courtesy of Phi Center.

  • Ascent (2016), dir. Fiona Tan
    Ascent (2016), dir. Fiona Tan

    May - Jun
    80min | G

    Showtimes
    Sun
    11, 18, 25 May - 5.15pm
    1, 8, 15, 22 Jun - 5.15pm

    In collecting over 4500 photographs of Mount Fuji from an open call with the general public, artist Fiona Tan crafts a riveting photo-film of a Western woman narrating her ascent of the sacred mountain and conversing with her deceased Japanese husband. Across ponderings and debates in both English and Japanese language, the mountain remains a visual and philosophical constant - a languid parable on grief, remembrance, and the question of what love is, if not memory persevering across time, divides, cultures, and language. 

    In conjunction with Mind and Body: The Art and Science of Being Human, an exploration of what it means to think, feel, and exist as human beings.   
     

    Image courtesy of Mongrel Media Inc.

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