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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...

Dan Koh
Feb 25, 20222 min read


mr yap
although he was in his early 90s, it still feels like a loss to lose Mr Yap Boon Chuan — SG's historic national football coach...

Dan Koh
Feb 14, 20221 min read


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...

Dan Koh
Feb 5, 20228 min read


#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...

Dan Koh
Feb 1, 20222 min read


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...

Dan Koh
Jan 18, 20221 min read


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...

Dan Koh
Jan 15, 20221 min read


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...

Dan Koh
Jan 8, 20223 min read
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...

Dan Koh
Dec 31, 20211 min read
la petit mort
yesterday i fell asleep on a bus again it was the mid-afternoon a single decker and besides and beside me there was another masked man...

Dan Koh
Nov 11, 20211 min read


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,...

Dan Koh
Nov 6, 20213 min read
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