"It's my party and I'll cry if I want to, you would cry too if it happened to you" is a project about unhappiness, or more specifically, affirmative unhappiness.

The collaboration between The Projector, Singapore’s foremost independent cinema theatre, and curator Louis Ho, is comprised of an exhibition of site-specific works located in The Projector’s Golden Mile space and a retrospective of Indonesian filmmaker, Kamila Andini. Works in the exhibition respond to the theme of affirmative unhappiness through the televisual medium, unhappiness being understood as feelings that do not serve the needs of dominant modes of contemporary life, simply because to be happy would be to accord with those ill-fitting frameworks.

The screening programme presents three of Kamila Andini’s films that, through the narratives of their female protagonists, bound by the common thread of misfortune and resilience, foreground what it means to be affirmatively unhappy. Films include “The Mirror Never Lies (Laut Bercermin)” (2011), “The Seen & Unseen (Sekala Niskala)” (2017) and “Yuni” (2021).

Image Credit: Intermission

List of Artists: Anthony Chin, Mark Chua and Lam Li Shuen, Victoria Hertel, Sarah Ninjawhee, Planeswalker, Pure Every (Hilary, Raigo and Elsa), Samuel Xun and Adeline Kueh. The film programme features the work of Kamila Andini.