Yxineff 2011

Dirty Bitch is a love letter to the Singapore censors, inspired by a violently censored VHS copy of Claire Denis’ Nénette et Boni, found in a library in Singapore. The obsession with preventing human behaviour to be seen and heard reminded the director of Emerson’s words, “People that seem so glorious are all show; underneath they are like everyone else.”

Sun Koh’s debut short film The Secret Heaven was the first Singaporean film to win the Silver Hugo at the 38th Chicago International Film Festival in 2002. After 5 years as a writer-director of many made-in-Singapore TV shows, she returned to independent film-making in 2007 with Bedroom Dancing, marking her first world premiere in the prestigious International Film Festival Rotterdam. She is currently working on a feature treatment The Mystery of The Dummy Suitcase.