Singapore Minstrel

Singapore Minstrel

Singapore Minstrel

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Singapore Minstrel

"A fantasy-documentary painting the magical universe of Singapore’s wildest busker"

2015

1h 27m

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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.

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