By Amanda Oon • Jul 17, 2023
Director Tom St. John Gray sought to explore the historical events of Pulau Senang, a penal experiment gone terribly wrong. In this interview following last week’s feature story on the riot’s anniversary, Gray describes his process and why he thinks the prison-island’s collapse is an almost “Shakespearean” tale

By Amanda Oon • Jul 14, 2023
Established in the last years of colonial Singapore, Pulau Senang was supposed to be a different, more progressive kind of prison. Six decades after the island collapsed into nightmarish conditions, a recent documentary has pulled its story back into the city-state’s public memory