In the age of mirrorless cameras and phones that can rival $50,000 cameras, it’s an understatement to say that film photography is a dying art. Who’d wanna be locked down to limited shots and painstakingly develop negatives when you can just do burst shots and edit images immediately?
In a digital world, there are few Singaporean folks who remain strongly analog. A documentary produced by Andre Chong and Lim Zeharn explores what goes on behind the lens of the very people who are preserving the fading art of film photography — and the challenges they face in doing so. Sure, going digital is hella convenient and all, but for these cats, there’s just something more intimate, more romantic, and definitely involves more craftsmanship when working with film. Watch these guys talk passionately about their love of film in Last Shot. Oh, and it’s pretty cool that they filmed it all in square format, presumably in homage to the aspect ratios of old.
