Proximities focuses on the trope of the Malay Boy found in the works of Singaporean artist Cheong Soo Pieng (b. 1917-1983). It attempts to locate the Malay male in art history while unpacking underlying systems of power that have shaped and naturalised the understanding of difference.
In making sense of the uncanny "Zinkepoel," the film trails through the ghost town of Singapore, Michigan, by meditating on the landscape as a conceptual terrain. By thinking about the unknowable, Singapore, Michigan, is engaged through its simultaneous"absence" and "excess".
