Last night I premiered my first film for the ‘Collective Moments’ evening at @whitechapelgallery, curated by @muslimsisterhood 💫✨ ‘Rakyat Jaga Rakyat’ (“the people help the people”) is an experimental split-screen video that emulates the ultimate precious object: a family photo book. Moving from the personal to the wider community, the film illustrates the fast-moving conditions of flash floods and climate change phenomena in Malaysia. It seeks to highlight moments of resilience and collectively of a country that has not only been abandoned by its government, but by the stakeholders of ecological imperialism. Sourcing the artist’s own intimate family photos, ‘netizen’ self-uploaded Youtube vlogs and lo-fi news videos – it ruminates on what is at stake of being lost. Thank you so much to Muslim Sisterhood team for inviting me to this and believing in my work, @b4dg3rr for collaborating / creating sounds with me last last minute when sound fell through, my loves Carmen @youl0veme and Marla @popkinjones for filming with me, lastly to my amazing parents for sending me over 1000 photos on Google Drive