This presentation reflects on three works by Studio 1914 that explore Southeast Asian narratives through inquiry, fieldwork, and community engagement. As a film and art practice, Studio 1914 reimagines regional narratives and folktales by engaging with expanded cinema, spatial design, and participatory methods. The "Bakawali films"(2026), inspired by the Hikayat Gul-Bakawali, emerge from an extended engagement with Bakawali plants, rethinking time and space through a non-human lens. By de-centering human temporality, the works propose an alternative narrative structure that foregrounds ecological entanglement and invites slower modes of artistic production and reception. In collaboration with Dr Kendy Mitot and Joey Lee, "Circle Between Realms"(2025) examines a fading Bidayuh rice ritual through fieldwork, grounded by the documentation of the last gawai at Dr Kendy's hometown. Here, Studio 1914 supports the translation of cultural knowledge into a contemporary installation. The work negotiates tensions between urban exhibition contexts and traditional continuity. Similarly, their participation with Rainbow Families' "Dear Home"(2023) staged at The Projector, reclaims a defunct cinema corridor as a temporary space for queer community gathering. By rendering visible both physical and affective infrastructures, the work positions exhibitions as platforms for engagement, care, and the creation of safe communal environments. Taken together, these works propose exhibition-making as an expanded field in which ecological entanglement, ritual memory, and spatial practice operate as distinct but intersecting modes of reimagining narrative authority and social relation.