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Singapore Film Database
Chancre
Directed by
Loo Zihan
2011
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Chancre – a painless ulceration formed during the primary stage of syphilis.
A transmission and transmutation of a memory couched in shame. This essay video includes, among others, excerpts of text from The Writings of a Savage by Paul Gauguin (1848–1903) detailing his experiences in Tahiti and a passage from Malay Magic (1900) by Walter William Skeat, which describes a female vampire known in Malay folklore as a ‘Pontianak’.
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