Rajendra Gour

Rajendra Gour

Still: Sunshine Singapore
The works of independent filmmaker Rajendra GOUR (1940, India) were brought to light decades after they were made, after he began volunteering at the Asian Film Archive in 2006. Gour studied film editing at the Film Institute of India, now known as the Film and Television Institute of India, and made a series of 16mm films throughout the 1960s and 1970s, which are believed to be some of Singapore's earliest independent short films. His first short, Mr. Tender Heart (1965), was shown at the Commonwealth Film Festival in London; however, no copies exist today. Eyes (1967), made during the Vietnam War, had an anti-war sentiment and was a critique on intolerance, while his films My Child My Child (1979) and A Labour of Love – The Housewife (1978) examine motherhood and family.

Filmography

(all short) Mr. Tender Heart (1965), Sight and Desire (Eyes) (1967), Eyes (1967), Sunshine Singapore (1972), Labour of Love – The Housewife (1977), My Child My Child (1979)