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Waiting

2015 · 5 min

A brief, quietly harrowing glimpse into pandemic confinement, offering a still, human window onto isolation and endurance.

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Waiting (Ripon Chowdhury with Ho Tzu Nyen), 2020
Overview
Waiting features Ripon Chowdhury, 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 50,000 COVID-19 infection cases take place. Since 21 April 2020, the government has imposed strict lockdown measures upon all dormitories, and the migrant workers—mostly hailing from South Asia or China—have been largely confined to their rooms. It is in this context that Ripon Chowdhury was invited by artist Ho Tzu Nyen to contribute to Contactless Deliveries. A poet, writer, and activist from Chittagong, Bangladesh, Chowdhury has been based in Singapore since 2010 as a migrant worker.

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Tone
  • bleakstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 2 of 3
  • tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing
slow-burn, 1 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • isolation
  • survival
  • class
  • race
  • politics
Places
  • big city
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
adult
Form
  • documentary
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
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ScaleValue0 to 10
Action0
Horror1
Humour1
Realism10
Romance0
Tension4
Darkness6
Complexity3
Emotional weight7

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Details

Genres
documentary
Directed by
Ho Tzu Nyen, Ripon Chowdhury
Runtime
5 min
Country
Singapore
Languages
Bengali

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