Illustration featuring the text 'Feeling the Apocalypse', a girl sitting by a doorway with a distressed expression, surrounded by torn paper or debris, in a stylized, cartoonish art style.

Feeling the Apocalypse

A psychotherapist struggling with climate anxiety explores what it means to live in a dying world.

August 23, 2024
9-10 PM

LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
Little Theater
Van Dam Street and 47th Avenue

Chen Sing Yap

A young Asian man with black hair, glasses, wearing a maroon t-shirt, posing in a photography studio.

Chen Sing Yap (he/him) is a Singaporean-born filmmaker living in Oakville, Ontario. Before moving to Canada he was a picture editor working primarily in long form factual television for Singaporean and international markets. In the last 5 years most of his directing, writing, and editing work has grappled with mental health in some way, starting with Overthinking It (2019), Shift (2020), and Feeling the Apocalypse (2022). Feeling the Apocalypse, a mixed-media piece on climate anxiety, is now being distributed by GOOD DOCS to schools and non-profits across the world.

More recently, Chen Sing co-wrote and edited for Minerva Navasca's short film DESYNC, which has won him awards from TIFF Next Wave and the Canadian Cinema Editors. He is currently co-developing the mixed-media narrative ABROAD with Minerva.

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