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  Review by Willy 4

  what do you call a docu-fiction hybrid that is presented like a raw youtube vlog, set in an entirely real environment, but directed (loosely scripted) and bookended like a fictional film?

  what limit is there to film anymore even? (s/o tmdb) 

  the camera (and sound) goes from professional to what must be a phone once the film essentially plunges into 100% guerilla style. kicked off by an utterly magical airport segment where the sun shimmers in every shot, theres soft piano music, aspect ratio changes, rly as if you're watching an idol vlog or something. they are in an actual airport, now they are in an actual plane. and no one around them is part of the movie. 

  i'm putting…

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  Review by Lucinda ★★★★

  This really took me back to being lost in a variety of foreign cities, having a huge bust-up with my best friend on our holiday from hell in Mongolia, walking aimlessly on rainy nights, and just generally having experiences in my life that weren't always fun or enjoyable at the time but have absolutely stuck with me since and that I'll always look back on fondly – or at least be glad I remember them so vividly. Big mood.

  [Watched as part of Static Vision's Hyperlinks festival screening now and all weekend for free at hyperlinks.online! Join us!]

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  Review by james ★★★★½

  *sees two tomboyish women in a Situation together* this is just like Jacques Rivette

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  Review by Cliff ★★★ 1

  This is one of those rare occasions where "boring" isn't necessarily a criticism. There must be a word for that sense of aimlessly filling time when away on holiday somewhere by just wandering around. It's not boring, it can be enlightening, but for someone like me who's always got things to do, it can feel a bit aimless. Pleasant, but aimless. (Some might say: relaxing.) This film allows us to watch two young women doing exactly that, and when you're not experiencing it first hand, it is kind of boring, but in that same pleasant way.

  If nothing else, it's a nice travelogue of Singapore, the place where friends Nina & Su have decided to go for free following a lottery…

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  Review by PlaguDocta ★★★★½

  Lost in tourism. Vlogging, or is it really a vlog? Stylistic sudden dips in sound quality. Sudden dance to trap beat music. The fading light show; the fading alienation. Nothing too bad happens, but everyone from other places is here, let's talk to them no matter what.

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  Review by Static Vision

  Wassup, Melbourne toys!!

  Gonna be at Panacea in Collingwood tonight with this one, and director Daisuke Miyazaki -- free!! free!! free!!, 8pmish in the beer garden (whenever the sun goes down), you can smoke and eat pizza, the cops can't stop you. Pull thru!!

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  Review by Stanley Luk ★★★½

  Oh to be able to eat $2 chicken rice in Singapore again 🥹🥹🥹

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  Review by Mathieu Li-Goyette ★★★

  La dernière ligne de dialogue, c’est la même que dans Conan.

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  Review by David Fortin ★★★

  Fait dans le cadre d'une exposition (Specters and Tourists) le film est moins évident prit hors de son contexte de fabrication (la réalisation "iphone-style", différente de son film précédant, fonctionne tout de même avec l'idée du film et de ces deux protagonistes découvrant Singapour (décidément un lieu qui revient souvent cette année). Le film laisse moins sa marque que Yamato (esthétiquement et émotivement du moins) mais on voit tout à fait la continuité des thèmes que le réalisateur développe dans une oeuvre encore jeune mais cohérente.

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  Review by BjorkShandy ★★★★ 2

  Welcome To Singapore

  I went into Tourism completely blind and the only reason I even added it to my watchlist was because I fell in love with the poster... sometimes adding a film to your watchlist just because it's poster looks awesome works out great, don't judge me I have added movies to my watchlist for far less forgivable reasons.

  What starts out as a chill hangout movie eventually turns into an anxiety fuelled nightmare when Nina looses sight of Su and ends up lost and alone in Singapore. Nina only knows a few English words and no Mandarin so we spend a long stretch of the film following her through the noisy streets of Singapore as she trys to…

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  Review by Jack Russo ★★

  Going overseas to go nowhere. That Miyazaki shoots in such guerrilla fashion only makes it all the more alienating, a camera in hiding as its subjects try to immerse in a culture devoid of its context.

  It's very much a go-with-the-flow affair, the structural vanity explorations of tourist attractions and war memorials abstracted as the cultural gap leaves them as little more than waterspouts and tall buildings. But once the urban sprawl divides the pair the mundane surrealism of the every day takes hold, confused-yet-carefree vibes floating through a foreign land.

  Not entirely my thing but the dance breakdown alone makes it worth a watch.

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  Review by Saoirse

  Such a pleasure to get to present this and to talk with Daisuke Miyazaki for a bit. If you’re wondering what any of the movies from the preshow where, I’ve popped it on YouTube with the titles in the description.  m.youtube.com/watch?v=3PP6n-iIZbI

  “Just run from the cops, like. Permits are just a cultural thing.”