Waiting / 等待 (2020) dir. Ho Tzu Nyen, Ripon Chowdhury,

As a crossover artist, Ho Tzu Nyen often works across a broad range of mediums including film, theatre, installation art, sound, and writing. No matter in what identity or with what medium, Ho always reflects around several aspects: the research on Southeast Asia's regional politics and folk history, mythology and culture; the study of cinematic language, structure and symbols; and various visual experiments and metaphors in relation to social realities or inner illusions. Waiting is a special project from this epidemic, in which Ho collaborated with Ripon Chowdhury, a Singaporean expatriate worker from Bangladesh, and invited him to record a session of his lengthy quarantine on camera. Ripon Chowdhury is one of some 323,000 migrant workers living in dormitories amongst the city state of Singapore, where the overwhelming majority of Singapore's more than 30,000 COVID-19 infection cases take place.