Flying pigs. Death-ray robots. Chinese-style vampires. Demons with tentacles. Welcome to the warped world of Ken Foo, an up-and-coming Singaporean comic artist. The artist’s artistic sensibility is a dizzy derivative of Japanese manga (think Excel Saga and Trigun), Stephen Chow-esque mo lei tau humor, and fetishism. Since 2005, Foo has created a respectable body of work, which range from short strips to full-length graphic novels.

Foo’s talent is on display here, where the hilarious “True Story of Ken Foo” is available for free. He also draws a weekly comic blog, a forum for his zany day-to-day musings. …

Singaporean director Tan Pin Pin is known for a set of rather structural and process-based documentaries: with 80kmh (2003), for example, we watch a continuous moving shot as we travel along a major highway artery across the island state, while in Singapore GaGa (2005) the visual component plays second fiddle to a fundamentally sonic exploration of space and collective identity. Other projects include both features and further documentaries, constructing an overarching image of laboratory urbanism built on a very human foundation that becomes bizarre to an almost otherworldly extent. I encountered many of these for the first time at the …