Near Intervisible Lines (2006) is a four-channel video installation created by video artist Hayati Mokhtar and filmmaker Dain Iskandar Said. This work examines a shifting landscape on Malaysia’s east coast, inquiring into ideas about memory, place, and belonging to reveal a deep connection between people and their lived environment.

Both artist and filmmaker worked collaboratively with community members who took roles as actors and storytellers. Though Mokhtar and Said maintain that the characters are real, their identities are not hidden or made exotic: “They are portrayed as themselves, part of this landscape, as is their music and their stories. They are not passive or exotically supine. They are collaborators in the process, presenting an odd juxtaposition to their traditional role presented in ethnographic filmmaking or as 'art'…” Using film, Mokhtar and Dain approach ‘landscape’ as an abstract understanding of place. They write, "In Bahasa Melayu there is no real translation for 'landscape'... the landscape tradition is a western concept.”

When asked by the curator how they would describe Near Intervisible Lines in terms of a question it asks, Hayati quoted Lucy Lippard: “If place is defined by memory, but no one who remembers is left to bring these memories to the surface, does a place become a noplace, or only a landscape?" Dain asked, “As you think of these questions about culture and place, does it disturb and raise feelings that are familiar and provoke you, or do you continue with your duck noodles (or steak and mash) and think about killing your neighbours because you can't stand the smell of curry coming from their window?”