Fruitful (2006)

“Fruitful” Short Film

Winner Canon DV Fest 2006 (Media Students Category)
Official Selection Singapore Biennale 2006
Official Selection The Arts House
Official Selection Singapore Short Film Festival 2007

Synopsis
Fruitful’s anchor revolves around the life of Dewi Putri, an Indonesian prostitute with a daughter. She submits to Ravi Shanker, a pimp disguised as a fruit and vegetable stall owner. At the brothel, Dewi is being out-chosen by a client – to a young and feisty local prostitute, Shirley Wong. Disappointed by the result, Dewi goes to the nearby convenience store where she learns to pick herself up through the secret and often violent world of this profession – in a country which prides itself as being safe and having stringent laws. Fruitful is a story of survival, family, discrimination and the sometimes burdened consequences of living so close to the edge.

Concept
Like fruits plucked from the branches of the majestic tree,
these fruits are then thrown into overused rattan baskets,
slide onto the backs of lorries and transported into various distribution centers cargo crammed,
and so these fruits journey begins.
Most make it to the stall,
while others fall short.
These fruits are then sold and consumed or
left to rot in the scorching heat where they are returned to the earth
and grow into another majestic fruit bearing trees.

Using prostitution as a metaphor to amplify the sub-concious contradictory actions of human beings with regards to their perspective and nature.

The idea of the import and export process of fruits to portray the nature of the prostitution industry in Singapore and her neighbouring countries, gains insight on the method of story telling through the different characters with different mindsets carefully drawn out in order to allow the audiences to reflect upon themselves about their own mindsets and think how it has affected themselves and the people surrounding them through the lens of the camera at different major angles.

Do unto others how you want others to do to you.
There are always two sides of a coin. This is one of it.

Director : Pigeon+on
Producer : Fitriah Abdullah