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.

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Click here for February Week 3 to 4 cinema schedule.

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Fly on the Wall

From 16 Feb

Look a little closer—we invite you into the secret lives of insects. Discover the hidden universe of tiny creatures below and around us at ArtScience Cinema with Fly on the Wall, a film programme featuring animated classics of bug worlds and insect documentaries that tingle the senses.

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Past Programmes

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Micro-Commissions

Late Spring

Commissioned for the smallest of screens as part of ArtScience at Home in 2020, Micro-Commissions features short films by some of Singapore's most prominent artists and filmmakers.

Kicking off the series is Lei Yuan Bin's Late Spring, an homage to film legend Yasujiro Ozu's masterpiece of the same name.

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ArtScience On Screen: Prophecy

Prophecy is a collaboration between filmmaker Gladys Ng, writer Zoea Tania and musician thistlemorse. It invites the audience to contemplate our earthly and spiritual existence through imagery both vast and microscopic.

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Sonorous Sketches: Visualising a Field Recording Dubplate

Sep 2023

A new animated short ﬁlm by local artist Zai Tang comprising of experimental visualisations of soundscapes recorded in the Singaporean wild. Join us for a livestream discussion and Q&A on 30 Sep with Zai Tang.

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How Can I Tell I Miss You

The world has mysteriously fallen asleep. Traversing the borders between past, present, memory and consciousness, someone attempts to rouse it from its deep slumber – will she ever succeed? Don’t miss Eva Tang’s latest film commissioned for ArtScience On Screen.

Catch the livestream Q&A with Eva and her collaborators on the film, Renee Chua and Joe Ng on 26 Aug, 9pm!

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Screen Zine

Issue 1: Film as Art/Art as Film

Jul 2020

The inaugural Screen Zine takes a quick peek at the role of the moving image in museums, some of the most creative and exciting works to cross between the film and art world, and of course – the importance of being Agnès (Varda).

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Scream Zine: The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari

Oct 2020

Screen Zine turns into Scream Zine with a graphic guide exploring the cinematic legacy of The Cabinet of Dr Caligari, a pioneer of the modern horror genre. In this special spooky edition, five illustrators reimagine this classic as a local folklore, an architect shows us the horror(s) in architecture, and an experimental essay offers us a poetic response to this expressionist classic.

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