Writer & Filmmaker
Wayne Lim (b. 2000) is a writer and image-maker from Singapore, based in Boorloo/Perth.
Grounded in an ongoing search for self and home, his creative practice investigates the potential of analog and experimental processes in the (re)interpretation and performance of memory via moving-image works.
Trained as a visual journalist, his work has been published in Austin’s alt-weekly The Austin Chronicle and Singapore’s daily broadsheet The Straits Times, and awarded at College Photographer of the Year, the world’s largest collegiate photojournalism competition.
His documentary films have also screened in competition at the Academy Awards-qualifying Short Shorts Film Festival (Japan) and the Singapore Youth Film Festival, among others.
Certain Deaths (2025)
Fading Frequencies (2024)
Unlearning, Relearning (2023)
Photography
Everyday Heroes (Iceland, 2024)
Presidential Election (Singapore, 2023)
Concerts (2023 - 2025)
Events / Singles (2023 - 2025)
Editorial
The Austin Chronicle (2023)
SPOILT Zine (2025)
Design Work
Visual Arts
Apparatus for Long-Distance Recall (2025)
Measures of Distance (2024)
Experiments
Bachelor of Communication Studies
(Highest Distinction)
2021 - 2025
Mediacorp Indiego, Singapore
Jan - Jun 2024
Editorial Intern
The Austin Chronicle, USA
May - Jul 2023
Production Intern
Atypicalfilms, Singapore
Feb - Jul 2021
Gold, Individual Multimedia Category
2024
Quick Response Residency
[upcoming] April 2026
Tokyo, Japan
2025
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Conference
Singapore
2025
Singapore Youth Film Festival
Singapore
2024
26th YOUKI International Youth Media Festival
Wels, Austria
2024
Objectifs FreshTake!
Singapore
2024
Short Circuit 7
Singapore
2023
UT RTF Longhorn Denius Student Film Showcase
Austin, Texas, USA
2023
Gillman Barracks, Singapore
2025
Between Queerness and Religion
Singapore Film Society, by Amadeus Yeo
2025
Documentary Film
Singapore, 2025
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To live is to die, over and over again.
Certain Deaths is a portrait of Singapore told through
the lens of metaphorical deaths experienced by its people.
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From the outset, my teammate Kevia Tan and I recognised and leaned into a shared anthropological approach towards documentary filmmaking — one grounded in observation, collection, and interpretation.
As we pieced these vignettes together, the film became not only a portrait of Singapore, but also a way for us to confront and reflect on our own assumptions, perspectives, and complicated relationship with the country we call home.
Arriving at the end of this final-year endeavour, the term “sonder”, coined by writer John Koenig, resonated with us more deeply than ever: “[Each passerby lives] a life as vivid and complex as your own. They carry on invisibly around you, bearing the accumulated weight of their own ambitions, friends, routines, mistakes, worries, triumphs, and inherited craziness.”
In all its quiet pain and persistence, we hope Certain Deaths will prompt viewers to slow down and reflect on their individual struggles, transformations, and small acts of resilience.
Contact for screener.