妈 (MA)

ANONNYMIMITY presents
an AS OF NOW REPEATED
production
an ANONNYMIMITY film

“妈(MA)”

Cast
Ang Kwee Hui as AH MA
Denise Lum as DAUGHTER

Music
Ben Sound – “Betterdays”
Ben Sound – “Tomorrow”

Crew
Ang Su Kim Marianne
Joyce Cheung
Lew Min Hui
Munn Iskandar
Teo Hui Zhen Madeline

cover vimeo (click on image for the video on vimeo)

Storyboards:
1 (2) 2 (2) 3 (2) 4-01 (2) 4-02 (2) 4-03 (2) 5 (2) 6 (2)

Plot: a mother suffers from dementia and imagines she’s the one who is actually going through the daily routine of going to the market and cooking for her child. she’s the one idling away and living in the past

Characters: Ah ma, Daughter (who’s portrayed as her daughter), Offline character (‘working daughter’)

Confusing element: wants audience to think that the caller is her daughter as the response is relatable (actual child as her maid instead by capturing her doing housework), mixture of hand (between daughter and ah ma herself) in preparing the meal, market scene does not show the character fully (zoomed in clips)

Elements of our film: digetic sound (chopping, water flowing etc), non-digetic sound (background music). speed of music in the beginning is melancholy and during the revelation, the screen was silent was a while, continued with a faster speed

Why this concept was chosen? Our group wanted to head in a direction of something different, simple yet relatable and closer to home. Even the language was in Chinese. Location was at a typical HDB and a supermarket.