went to the showcase of animes produced by students of the korean academy of film arts at the new singapore history museum theatre. i hadn't known the museum had relocated to robertson quay!! a bit of a squeeze, i think, to be housed on the third and fourth floors of riverside point mall, and i can't quite get used to a mouldy old museum smack by the trendy bar-lined river, but what do i know? i enjoyed the main feature: the cosmic tree, a hallucinatory wartime tale of a young boy employed in a printing press to unload cartons of ink used for the printing of war propaganda. at some point, he trips up, and the posters become printed without certain colours. a poster depicting the mushroom cloud and captioned: war! we want you! comes out merely with "want!" and the explosion resembles a tree. he ferrets the misprinted posters into his room, plaster the walls with them, stares at them, and the vision of a korean folktale comes to him - a girl in a paradisal garden - which vision of perfect tranquility is suddenly invaded by warhorses - et in arcadia ego, and that sort of thing. it ends with the boy leaping off the top of a building into the blood-red sunset.

the rest of them were short (3-8 minutes) and fairly amusing but not the cleverest things i have seen. in one of them there was a very winsome long-necked orange dinosaur who grinned most charmingly while he stuck his head through the post office window and gobbled up letters in the mailbag. how pleased von would have been with him!