Ian Tan is an educator and writer based in Singapore, where he teaches Literature. He is interested in the interaction between film, literature, and philosophy in the cinema of Tarkovsky, Tarr, Sokurov, Zvyagintsev, and the Dardenne brothers, and has written and presented on these topics. His essay "Tarrying with the Nothing: Asking Anew Heidegger's Question of Being in the Cinema of Bela Tarr" has been published by Senses of Cinema. 
Activist & Political · Crime · Historical & Epic · War
The killers were more than willing to help and, when we filmed them boastfully describing their crimes against humanity, we met no resistance whatsoever. All doors were open. Local police[…]
Consume my heart away; sick with desire And fastened to a dying animal It knows not what it is; and gather me Into the artifice of eternity. Once out of[…]
