Video Journalism To Tell A City's Most Interesting Stories
I make source-grounded films, video essays, and interactive work about the objects, oddities, and officialdom that shapes my home city of Kuala Lumpur, as well as Malaysian public life.
I'm a Malaysian video journalist, documentary filmmaker and digital producer based in Kuala Lumpur. My work moves between reporting, archival research, urban observation and participatory design.
In telling urban stories by paying attention to my streets, I give my audiences a way to question their localities without feeling too technical, historical, or far away.
reporting · making · public life
Before the documentaries and video essays, there were newsrooms, elections, protests, interviews, edits, photographs, KL-centered music production, broken pavements and long train rides. The forms keep changing; the habit does not. I start with something concrete, follow the evidence, and make a way for other people to enter the story.
The city keeps changing its mind. I like to be there when it does — with a microphone, a notebook, or an excuse to ask one more question.
Nobody knows why a Kuala Lumpur street repeats itself, literally saying Anderson Drive Drive, ignoring its own history. Not until I asked, at least. Watch the full Anderson Drive episode on YouTube.
My work has been shared across independent platforms, cultural networks and international press. Read a selection of coverage of my opinions and expertise.
Eight source-led films established an international audience for Malaysian history, culture, institutions and public life.
A research-led video-essay project that begins with Malaysian objects, documents, places and contradictions before revealing the wider system beneath them. Its first season made eight essays and reached approximately 400,000 views, 6,000 subscribers and more than 15,000 hours of viewing.
A short-form platform for the hidden histories and present-tense questions of Kuala Lumpur: the streets, buildings, systems and people that make the city legible.
A documentary about an unsolved urban mystery in Kuala Lumpur's historic center. It premiered at the Walk The Doc international documentary film festival.
An upcoming documentary release in October 2026 following public-transport advocates and DIY urbanists as they navigate broken systems, bad information and the right to move through Kuala Lumpur.
upcoming release · October 2026
An independently-developed multiplayer game that uses humor, player choice and the rhythms of a Malaysian food street to make climate awareness feel lived-in rather than preached. It explores Malaysia's food-obsessed culture through stock, rain, heat, labor, waste, rent and the small decisions that keep a 24-hour street alive.
currently in development
Talks, mentoring, public programs and institutional training turn the research into a conversation rather than a broadcast.
Architects of Diversity · 2025
A Heboh House closing-showcase conversation about making complex issues digestible and culturally grounded, research methods, misinformation and useful public storytelling.
view program ↗Think City × Cilisos · KULektif
Instructor and mentor for emerging storytellers learning to turn Kuala Lumpur's histories, communities and civic questions into public-facing work.
Think City · KL Festival · civic forums
Contributing creator-side thinking on how a first-time cultural festival could reach wider audiences, alongside election-night and public-interest forum moderation across Malaysia.
newsrooms · institutions · civic forums
Media training for governmental and academic institutions, including senior Brunei civil servants and Royal Brunei Police.
the ampang observer
The Observer began as an invitation to make room for writing with texture — annotated, specific, and allowed to take its time. That invitation is still open.
read the original invitation →