
Singapore Film Database
On Memories of Countless Days Away 《山林記憶》
Directed by
Liao Jiekai, Elysa Wendi
Year
Runtime
2026
102 min
Genre
Documentary, Audiovisual Essay, Dance
Language
English, Mandarin, Japanese
Synopsis
Two longtime friends revisit their formative years as artists and their coming of age in Singapore. Piecing together footage accumulated over the years and reconstructing a dance for which no archive remains, they sit with failure, doubt and the creative possibilities that persist. Their thoughts turn towards the fraught question of where they belong: one traces a journey to his ancestral grave, the other reckons with the quiet erasure of her father’s citizenship.

Producer(s)
Elysa Wendi, Liao Jiekai, Akiho Furuichi
Produced by
International Sales/Distribution
Cast
Gigi Yang
Tags
Dance, documentary, Memory, archive, coming of age, failure, creativity, ancestral, erasure, citizenship