Buah Dahsyat (Fantastic Fruits)
Buah Dahsyat (Fantastic Fruits) is an experimental short film capturing the veiled and coded lives of residents in Boon Lay, Singapore through enigmatic fruits acting as multifarious symbols for intersecting themes including everyday rituals, desire, social mobility and labour.
Anchored by the voice of drag queen Luna Thicc, the fruits’ behaviour and habits become enmeshed with found footage, smartphone videos and kitsch popular culture imagery.
Written & Directed by Khairullah Rahim
Sound: berukera
Voice: Luna Thicc
Produced under the Folk-Lor project led by Darren Guo and Euginia Tan, with community partner, 3Pumpkins (Tak Takut Kids Club), supported by National Arts Council, BinjaiTree, and National Youth Council – Young Change Makers.
about the artist /
Khairullah Rahim is a Singapore-based contemporary artist working across installation, objects, image and time-based media. He holds a Master of Fine Arts in Visual Arts from the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University (2023). He currently serves as an adjunct faculty member at University of the Arts Singapore (LASALLE).
Working across multiple registers of material and form, Khairullah’s practice examines the entanglements of queerness, POZ resilience, working-class subjectivities, and the decolonisation of botany, with a particular emphasis on strategies of survival and resourcefulness within regimes of surveillance. Khairullah has undertaken artist residencies at IASPIS (Stockholm), Salzburger Kunstverein (Salzburg), Facebook (Singapore), Hubei Institute of Fine Arts (Hubei), Taipei Artist Village (Taipei), and YOUKOBO Art Residency Programme (Tokyo). His work has been exhibited internationally at institutions such as the Barbican Centre (London), Tai Kwun (Hong Kong), Centre for Contemporary Arts (Glasgow), Tiger Strikes Asteroid (New York), Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (Bangkok), and the National Gallery Singapore, among others.
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