In Stranger Eyes, the voyeur becomes the viewed

Film-maker Yeo Siew Hua asks heavy questions with a light touch in the crime story

- John Lui

The story: Junyang (Wu Chien-ho) and Peiying (Anicca Panna) are devastated when their toddler goes missing at a playground in Singapore. They begin receiving mysterious videos showing that their everyday movements are being recorded.

Using information from the police investigation, the young couple decide to take matters into their own hands.

Stranger Eyes opens showing a happy couple playing with their kid, then the camera pulls back to reveal that the audience is watching a home video. In later scenes, video footage—much of it filmed without the subject's consent or even knowledge—forms what viewers see on screen.

In the award-winning A Land Imagined (2018), Singaporean film-maker Yeo Siew Hua tackled the irony of a Singaporean identity formed from the labour of an unseen underclass of migrant workers.