J. Ishmael

Movies

All for Love
Editor
A girl sends her old SLR camera to a reclusive camera repair master. In the course of getting the camera to be fix, the girl develops a special relationship with the master.
The Girl from Tomorrow
Editor
A dark time-travel love story about Joe, a directionless youth whose life and ambitions are saved by the beautiful Yen, who claims she has mysterious ties to another dimension. Joe is both intrigued and frightened by the strange woman, but she nonetheless guides the unstable young man to take control of his own fate.
Call If You Need Me
Cinematography
Gentle, easy-going Or Kia moves from the countryside to Kuala Lumpur to work for his cousin and best friend Ah Soon, a mid-level gangster and enforcer. While Or Kia works hard to put a sister through school, Ah Soon cares for an unstable girlfriend prone to mysterious disappearances. As they both sink deeper into a nocturnal world of debts, drugs, and betrayal, Or Kia's loyalties are strained when Ah Soon falls out of favor with the bosses and tries to escape the business.
Gerhana
Director of Photography
A dark take on media manipulation and political situation in Malaysia. The idea is to convey how normal citizens even though sometimes they know what they read and heard are absurd and not right but still with not much options to react but to accept them in order to maintain their livelihood. And at the same time powerful figures whom understands the mentality of the citizens continues to drives their ridiculous and absurd ideas and opinions to the mass.