Roy Payamal is the wildest busker of a country ranked the world’s most emotionless society. He takes his undermined line of work as a serious art- but is his faith impossible idealism or an admirable conviction? Singapore Minstrel is an invitation into his beautiful mind, a magical, trying universe where art and life dialogue in a tropical dream.
In English with English subtitles.
Rated PG.
Join us for a live Q&A with director Salty Xi Jie Ng and artist Roy Payamal, moderated by Viknesh Kobinathan on Sat 8 Aug 2pm.
Salty Xi Jie Ng is an artist, performer, educator, and mystic based between Singapore and Portland, Oregon. Her transdisciplinary practice is a collaborative, alchemical site intimately exploring the erotic, ancestry, ageing, the inner worlds of older women, the end-of-life, unseen worlds, and spirit realms, while examining artistic labour and what gets to be called art. Salty is the 2024 recipient of the Chamberlain Award for social practice artists from the Headlands Centre for the Arts and the 2025 Arts Research Scholar-in-Residence at Nanyang Academy of Fine Art - University of the Arts Singapore.
Viknesh Kobinathan is a cultural worker and organiser whose practice explores gatherings around sound and image as acts of care, healing, rest, and refusal. He holds a postgraduate degree in Film Studies from the National Film and Television School in England. Based in Singapore, he is part of the film programming team at Objectifs – Centre for Photography and Film. He was previously Programmer at the Asian Film Archive and Programme Manager at The Projector.
