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Dan Koh

"think present"

honoured to have had written the album notes to maverick musician Xhin's landmark new album The Images Within. as we all pretend to...

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full moon rising

amidst the increasingly overwhelming violence enveloping the world and our minds, this recent music mix by Xhin has been a balm, a mental...

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unhemming the old SG suit

"Cina wurung, Londo durung, Jawa tanggung." – description of Kapitan Cina Tan Jin Sing, quoted in Peter Carey, Destiny: The Life of...

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#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

today is the one-year anniversary of the #MyanmarCoup. on the morning of 1 February 2021, a Monday, the day before Parliament was due to...

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IFFR Rotterdam Lab 2022

happy to share that i'll be participating in International Film Festival Rotterdam's Rotterdam Lab for emerging producers online from...

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i SAW nothing

one thing i love about being in countries that celebrate both the Gregorian and Lunar New Years is that January feels like a reprieve, a...

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obligatory years-end film list (1 year late)

fortifying new/recent feature films seen since pandemic, amidst ongoing personal disillusionment with the filmic & other arts: 37 seconds...

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Omicron dreams of electric sheep

just wanna share, on NYE, that this rather pervasive attitude that we’re all going to catch Covid, sooner or later, so you might as well...

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X’ with an X

“So for the uninitiated, here’s the X who still marks the spot.” in 2019, (the artist formerly known as) Chris Ho was the worthy,...