sentences:  Kenneth Paul Tan states that "Raphaël Millet describes Northwestern University-trained Tan Pin Pin as a 'pioneer' of the documentary genre in Singapore and country, her 22-minute "Moving House" among the 'first breakthroughs'in a genre that is important for recording the history of 'a young nation still in the making'...In "Singapore Gaga" (2005) for instance, Tan captures and then privileges the marvelous diversity, idiosyncrasies and musicality of ordinary voices in Singapore, voices that have mostly been overpowered by the ubiquitous and bland pronouncements of officialdom"
  
  Professor Tan goes on to point out that "Tan's film points to two stages of violence which are visually resonant.At the first stage, in the 1950s-70s, large numbers of Singaporeans living in village communities were dispersed and resettled-sometimes against their will-into modern public housing estates.