‘These Laticifers Keep Bleeding…’ (a trailer)
2025
(56:41, 3-channel video)
co-created with Komtouch Napattaloong
Four interviews with rubberists from the SEA region connect their personal relationships with rubber to broader themes of historical materialism, the Malayan Emergency, martial arts physiology, synthetic biology, and the enigmatic nature of the laticifer cell; while phantasmagorical scenes from Heveaphilia provide a visual backdrop that extends or counterpoints their narrations. These segments coalesce with haunted excerpts of Southern Thai myths, revolutionary struggles, familial memories and global warfare from In the Land of Lady White Blood. Through the entangling of these narratives & projects, ‘Laticifers…’ creates new linkages and resonances that continually expand on each other.
A collaborative work with Komtouch Napattaloong and Kaisa Saarinen, made specially for Ghost:2568. Score composed by Kamal Sabran.
Interviews with Rubberists (ongoing)
2025 -
(four digital videos, approx. 5 - 9 mins each)
This is an ongoing series of auto-fictional interviews with rubber fetishists discussing how their personal lives and interests have been inflected by the uncanny allure of rubber.
The interviewees include:
BP102; an October evening in the 2040s; Hanoi, Vietnam
M. Shah; February 2025; Tengah Plantation District, Singapore
Stella Cheng; July 2025; Quartier Asiatique Paris, France;
Pun; December 2024; Chanthaburi, Thailand
EMERGENCIES
2025
(15:00, short film)
A Singaporean man mixes up two memories — one of a colonial-era propaganda film about communist insurgencies in rubber plantations, and another of his Malaysian ex-playmate.
人在江湖 (out in the world)
2021 - 2022
(9:57, single-channel video)
music composed by Teddie Fitzpatrick
Composited over found footage of patrons eating out at Chinese restaurants, a latex-clad figure spins in tandem with the lazy susans commonly found, and used as an object of entertainment, in Chinese restaurants. The exaggerated, cartoonish and sometimes flirtatious performances that this stock-image body brings out of its audiences, blur the line between derision and affection, othering and intimacy. In the second half of the film, a rupture occurs and with it, a chance for transformation beyond binaries.
Somerset House CUTE commission
2024
(approx 1:30, single-channel videos)
A series of five short videos responding to the five curated thematics of cuteness - Play Together, Sugar-Coated Pill, Monstrous Other, Hypersonic and Cry Baby.
A shapeshifting dancer performs within the frame of a mobile phone, whilst inundated by pop-ups of cute-inspired popular culture that correspond with the theme of each cluster. Her performance and entanglement with these digital materials mirror the supercharged self-narrativising and hyperkinetic intensity of internet cute culture. This series of videos were installed alongside curated cultural artefacts.
A History of Rubber Commodities
2023
(5:20, single-channel video)
A brief account of rubber commodities available in the modern age.
The Very Thought of You
2022
(10:20, short film)
Set 10,000 years after the myth of Chang-E’s ascension onto the Moon, ‘The Very Thought of You’ centers around the hallucinatory experience of a Moon refugee who was broken out of his cryo-vacuum stasis by reasons unknown. In his helpless and delirious state, the man began wondering if he was really hearing the voice message of an ex-lover who he had to abandon in a bid for personal survival. The boundaries between freedom and restriction, past and present, individualism and collectivism, will blur and may even dissolve, in this dusky corner of the Moon.
Commissioned by Tour de Moon and UNBOXED.
44 Minutes, compressed into a lifetime
2021 (mixed presentations)
The goodest best boy Luigi as the most adorbz cat-maid(?)boy enduring the iconic thirst trap choreography of our times for 44 very cute, but sometimes torturous, minutes 🥺🐱