![A collage with a silhouette of a person with their head in their hands, suggesting despair or anxiety. Their body is filled with various images against a pixelated, digital background. The silhouette’s head contains an image of a melting glacier, and in their eye glasses, a forest fire rages. The torso contains a turbulent tornado. The legs of the silhouette are filled with an image of a landfill showing scattered debris and a piece of machinery. The overall composition has a surreal or abstract quality, blending human form with environmental imagery. A collage with a silhouette of a person with their head in their hands, suggesting despair or anxiety. Their body is filled with various images against a pixelated, digital background. The silhouette's head contains an image of a melting glacier, and in their eye glasses, a forest fire rages. The torso contains a turbulent tornado. The legs of the silhouette are filled with an image of a landfill showing scattered debris and a piece of machinery. The overall composition has a surreal or abstract quality, blending human form with environmental imagery.](https://reframefilmfestival.ca/wp-content/uploads/elementor/thumbs/FTA_Despair300-qhqdnbdfn7cbolqs96u27cagfbtt344ybsmzzqtxz4.jpg)
Feeling the Apocalypse
- Chen Sing Yap
- Canada
- 2022
- 7 mins
- Sun Jan 28
- 12:30 PM
- Market Hall
From the disappearing wildlife in his hometown of Owen Sound to the news stories about the melting of Greenland, psychotherapist Anderson Todd tells us how fragmenting ecosystems around the world have affected his psyche and his relationships. Do the realities of collapse necessarily spell paralyzing despair, or is there something positive we can take from this?
Guest in attendance, Q&A with Chen Sing Yap
- English
- Captioned in English
- Hopeful
Virtual & Hybrid Passholder Pre-order is now open for this film in the Virtual Theatre. Individual Virtual Theatre ticket sales open January 17th.
About the Filmmaker
- Filmmaker: Chen Sing Yap
- Producer: Nikolai Osborn
- Other Credits: Interviewee: Anderson Todd; Director of Photography: Tarneem Allati; Transmedia: Sarah Saunders; Composers: Rebecca Foss, Leah Hidalgo; Sound Editor: Dominick De Villon; Editor: Chen Sing Yap; Assistant Producers: Holly De Vaal, Poppi Fella Pellegrino, Laura Johnston; Special Thanks: Victoria McGlynn; Background Art: Ruby Davies; Animation & Art: Rowan Mikolic-O'Rourke; Localization: Jean Carlo Laiton, María del Pino Aínsa, Alexa Thobo-Carlsen
Chen Sing Yap
Chen Sing Yap (he/him) is a Singaporean-born filmmaker living in Oakville, Ontario. Before moving to Canada he was a picture editor working primarily in long form factual television for Singaporean and international markets. Since then he has honed his directing and editing craft in the short form with Overthinking It (2019), Shift (2020), Feeling the Apocalypse (2022). Recent work on the short film Desync won him a CCE Student Merit Award.