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Lesbian Club Culture of 1990s Singapore Explored in Kirsten Tan and Tan Si En’s Busan APM Project ‘Crocodile Rock’: ‘Queer Erasure Is Real’
Kirsten Tan's 'Crocodile Rock' at Busan APM explores 1990s Singapore lesbian club culture, examining identity amid social-political tensions.
“Crocodile Rock” follows a homeless teenage drifter named Pepsi through the trancelike underbelly of lesbian club culture, intertwining her story with those of an elusive bar owner and an idealistic student activist. While the film is fictional, it draws from these personal accounts set against the backdrop of a time when police raids on gay and activist spaces were widespread, “due to the fear of the AIDS crisis, Western liberalism and alternative ideologies,” Tan said. “While ‘Crocodile Rock’ is unapologetically queer, it also very much speaks to larger themes of drifters and outsiders searching for love and connection, in a time of social alienation amidst the neon-lit excess and impersonal density of an Asian cosmopolis,” Tan said.
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