Vogue Singapore recently featured Graduate Film alumna Kirsten Tan '14, detailing the filmmaker's favorite spots in Singapore to eat, drink, and hang out.
"The unvarnished in-betweenness, she muses, is an aspect of Singapore she wishes were celebrated more. “We’re so good at presenting the shiniest, most gleaming versions of ourselves, like that perfect LinkedIn profile that’s void of all personality. Of course, we all love pretty, but that bores me sometimes because perfection is static and a closed vault. Imperfection, on the other hand, implies growth and becoming. It is a more tender and human space to be in,” she explains. “I wish we celebrated more of the unruly parts that aren’t curated for display; the subcultural groups; the home-based auntie food hustlers; the post independence brutalist buildings perpetually at risk of en bloc sale. That’s where the soul of Singapore truly lives.”