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Dan Koh is a writer, book editor, and film producer from Singapore. He is the author of chapbook Jurong, My Love (2017), and an editor of art and history books like Shubigi Rao's Pulp III (2022). In film, he was one of the producers of Yeo Siew Hua's A Land Imagined (2018), which he also script consulted. With Siew Hua, Dan runs the production company Incantation Films. damnkohl.com

Mayfly Docus: “Die Tomorrow” and “14 Apples” at SIFA’s “Singular Screens”

By Dan Koh (1,715 words, 15-minute read) At this year’s Singapore International Festival of Arts (SIFA), the two films from Southeast Asia are documentaries, or hybrid-documentaries—just like last year’s three, curiously. Despite the glaring gaps that remain in the funding, distribution, marketing, and audience reception of our internationally overlooked non-fiction, plus their increased local censorship […]

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“Art Studio” by Nine Years Theatre: Back to the Page

By Dan Koh (1,263 words, 12-minute read) “I finally felt that being an artist was a meaningful vocation,” Chua Mia Tee says towards the end of a career-spanning interview.[1] Best known for his 1950s oil paintings Epic Poem of Malaya, National Language Class, and Portrait of Lee Boon Ngan (depicting his wife, also an oil

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Three O.P.E.N. Southeast Asian Documentaries

By Dan Koh (1,231 words, 6-minute read) At the inaugural Southeast Asia Fiction Film Lab in Bangkok last week, some of us participants chatted about how close we live to each other regionally, but how far it actually feels, with opportunities to convene and collaborate like SEAFIC remaining far and few between. Curated by Tan

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