Daniel Hui

Directing

Daniel Hui

Born

1986-11-05 (39)

Place of birth

Singapore

Known for

Directing

Credits

17 titles

Daniel Hui studied at the California Institute of the Arts. He collaborates with the Network for the Promotion of Asian Culture and writes articles for their website. He is one of the founding members of 13 Little Pictures, an independent film collective whose films have been screened with acclaim in several festivals around the world. He made his debut as a filmmaker and writer in 2007 with the short The Bracelet. Many other shorts have followed since, and in 2011 he made his first feature film, No Images, which won the Pixel Bunker Award for International New Talent at Doclisboa.

Known for

Small Hours of the Night poster
7.0

A woman is being interrogated in a dark room by a stern young man on a rainy night. As the hours pass, identities and historical time periods begin to blur. Her testimony becomes a scrambled, personal record of her country’s complicated legal history.

Small Hours of the Night

2024

Demons poster
2.6

A role in a new production seems lucky for young actress Vicki until the torture that awaits her is revealed. Vicki refuses to be agonized in this satiric horror film about power, abuse and the hidden violence of creativity that contemplates the price of art.

Demons

2018

No artwork available
NR

A personal rumination on love and loss, using the images and sounds of famous movies. Just as, in movies, we see through another’s eyes, hear through another’s ears, this film stands as an experiment to see if we could also speak through another’s mouth.

Sayang

—

Eclipses poster
NR

A woman begins to come to terms with society after having withdrawn into her own world to mourn her late husband. The film splinters away to document the characters surrounding her - people from different classes, including the director's own family. An investigation of the landscapes in which we live, work, and play, this is Singapore seen through the prisms of family, class and race.

Eclipses

2011

No artwork available
NR

A Balinese housemaid works in a home that is not her own.

Rumah Sendiri

—

Snakeskin poster
7.0

In 2066, a survivor of an enigmatic cult recounts his country’s traumatic history and the events leading to the rise and fall of the cult. Ghosts from 2014 and before appear as witnesses. Part dream documentary, part city symphony, this film traces the lineage of oppression as inscribed in Singapore’s landscape and collective unconscious.

Snakeskin

2014

Behind the camera

Small Hours of the Night poster
7.0

A woman is being interrogated in a dark room by a stern young man on a rainy night. As the hours pass, identities and historical time periods begin to blur. Her testimony becomes a scrambled, personal record of her country’s complicated legal history.

Small Hours of the Night

2024

Small Hours of the Night poster
7.0

A woman is being interrogated in a dark room by a stern young man on a rainy night. As the hours pass, identities and historical time periods begin to blur. Her testimony becomes a scrambled, personal record of her country’s complicated legal history.

Small Hours of the Night

2024

Small Hours of the Night poster
7.0

A woman is being interrogated in a dark room by a stern young man on a rainy night. As the hours pass, identities and historical time periods begin to blur. Her testimony becomes a scrambled, personal record of her country’s complicated legal history.

Small Hours of the Night

2024

Demons poster
2.6

A role in a new production seems lucky for young actress Vicki until the torture that awaits her is revealed. Vicki refuses to be agonized in this satiric horror film about power, abuse and the hidden violence of creativity that contemplates the price of art.

Demons

2018

Demons poster
2.6

A role in a new production seems lucky for young actress Vicki until the torture that awaits her is revealed. Vicki refuses to be agonized in this satiric horror film about power, abuse and the hidden violence of creativity that contemplates the price of art.

Demons

2018

No artwork available
NR

A personal rumination on love and loss, using the images and sounds of famous movies. Just as, in movies, we see through another’s eyes, hear through another’s ears, this film stands as an experiment to see if we could also speak through another’s mouth.

Sayang

—

Eclipses poster
NR

A woman begins to come to terms with society after having withdrawn into her own world to mourn her late husband. The film splinters away to document the characters surrounding her - people from different classes, including the director's own family. An investigation of the landscapes in which we live, work, and play, this is Singapore seen through the prisms of family, class and race.

Eclipses

2011

Eclipses poster
NR

A woman begins to come to terms with society after having withdrawn into her own world to mourn her late husband. The film splinters away to document the characters surrounding her - people from different classes, including the director's own family. An investigation of the landscapes in which we live, work, and play, this is Singapore seen through the prisms of family, class and race.

Eclipses

2011

No artwork available
NR

A Balinese housemaid works in a home that is not her own.

Rumah Sendiri

—

Snakeskin poster
7.0

In 2066, a survivor of an enigmatic cult recounts his country’s traumatic history and the events leading to the rise and fall of the cult. Ghosts from 2014 and before appear as witnesses. Part dream documentary, part city symphony, this film traces the lineage of oppression as inscribed in Singapore’s landscape and collective unconscious.

Snakeskin

2014

Snakeskin poster
7.0

In 2066, a survivor of an enigmatic cult recounts his country’s traumatic history and the events leading to the rise and fall of the cult. Ghosts from 2014 and before appear as witnesses. Part dream documentary, part city symphony, this film traces the lineage of oppression as inscribed in Singapore’s landscape and collective unconscious.

Snakeskin

2014

No artwork available
NR

A short film about love and economics.

Animal Spirits

—

Dreams of Youth poster
NR

Wei Tian, a teenage boy in junior college, prepares to leave Singapore and his childhood behind, as he accepts an offer to return to Australia for his studies.

Dreams of Youth

2008

Dreams of Youth poster
NR

Wei Tian, a teenage boy in junior college, prepares to leave Singapore and his childhood behind, as he accepts an offer to return to Australia for his studies.

Dreams of Youth

2008

No artwork available
NR

A militant reads Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto in light of today’s Occupy Wall Street protests.

No Images

—

No artwork available
NR

A young woman returns from Europe and tries to settle back into life at home.

One Day in June

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No artwork available
NR

Stella, a young poet in Los Angeles, lives with three artist friends, their days filled with drunken debates on academic theories. When Stella suddenly vanishes amid a series of mysterious local murders, the trio must put aside their intellectual conflicts. They dive into the clues Stella might have left, racing against time to find her and uncover the truth behind the eerie happenings in their neighborhood.

The Fifth Sun

2014