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Dream Weaver 555

The newly released enigmatic amulet Dream Weaver 555 promises to unlock the gateway to realising dreams, offering hope beyond reach where wishes materialise within the depths of dreams. With this satirical commentary on Thai society, director Panida Petchara turns this magical trinket into a cinematic device to explore how capitalism fuels desire and inequality by banking on superstition. Even dreams are commercialised in this subversive work that throws the teleshopping-aesthetic in the uncanny valley.

Dream Weaver 555

NR N/A
Methylene Blue

a sonic and moving image collaboration between Liew Niyomkarn and Chulayarnnon Siriphol, commissioned by Sofia Lemos, for the multi-platform research programme SONIC CONTINUUM. Borrowing from the language of cosmetics advertisement, mass media and Thai soap opera, the work addresses questions around voice and speech in the context of the recent mobilisations in Bangkok. Using sound synthesis, Niyomkarn contrasts melodic parallels between the Thai anthem and the popular song 'Golden Land’ with dialogues and conversations ripped from and recorded in global protest events. Drawing on these sonic granularities, Chulayarnnon folds digital noise into an otherwise common manifestation of a capitalised gendered division of affects, intimacy and politics in contemporary Thailand.

Methylene Blue

NR 2020
Sarong Warrior

If given the choice, I would prefer to live a peaceful and content life in a community rather than participating in protests. The crucial battles would involve the defenders of the sea, who rise up to protect their way of life from being destroyed. If the community undergoes changes due to development projects, and if the sea becomes inaccessible for fishing as it used to be, and if there is a scarcity of fish, crab, and seafood, what would the situation be like? However, this battle would undergo a profound transformation as the local residents determine the development plans themselves, adapting to the needs of the community. The coastal inhabitants would face these challenges under the influence of worries, hopes, dreams, and the vision of the future. Take everyone on a journey to experience the life of the defenders of the sea, who strive to preserve their way of life, culture, beliefs, food, resources, air, and the sea.

Sarong Warrior

NR 2023
The Wandering Ghosts

In the last couple of years, thousands of illegal Thai migrant workers in South Korea are deported back to Thailand, while thousands more slipped through the borders to take up both legal and illegal jobs. Calling themselves ‘ghosts’, they left their homeland for a foreign country whose language they cannot speak, work towards an uncertain future, and hide like phantoms to evade the authorities. The film observes the situation of these workers, as well as visits the other generation of Thai migrant worker in South Korea, an 80 year-old Thai veteran who once fought a Korean war.

The Wandering Ghosts

NR 2017
Though the Mountains Divide, and the Oceans are Wide

"Though the Mountains Divide, and the Oceans are Wide" is a short video essay on the interrelation between childhood encounters and current realities through a personal story of the artist - Belle Phromchanya - who has moved from Thailand to the Netherlands in her adulthood. The video compiles home video footage of family trips during the 1990s taken by her father, along with video materials of a senior Thai artist living in Amsterdam taken by Phromchanya herself. The senior artist, who is around the same age as her father, has been a subject of Phromchanya's work until his sudden passing in 2020. By layering these early years' memories with the struggles of dealing with the uncertainty of daily life, the video shares attempts of capturing the temporarily of the moment - and both beauty and unsettling experience of being elsewhere.

Though the Mountains Divide, and the Oceans are Wide

NR 2020
Flag of Chai

A Thai historical film based on the Haw Wars during the reign of King Rama V in 1885, when a group of Chinese Haw rebels rose against Siam and besieged a Thai military camp. The authorities launched a secret mission, sending Lieutenant Tem, a talented young officer, together with Sergeant Thon, a veteran soldier, and twenty-four patriotic troops to deliver medicine and artillery shells. Their goal was not only to supply the besieged forces but also to plant the national flag at the frontier as a symbol of sovereignty, even though they knew the mission might cost them their lives.

Flag of Chai

NR 1957
I DON'T BELONG ON EARTH

“I Don’t Belong on Earth” is a heartfelt short film set in 2003 Thailand, following the story of May, a convenience store worker. After her shift, she wanders the night, grappling with her emotions and contemplating her life’s path, trying to understand the question, “What is she doing with her life?” “I DON’T BELONG ON EARTH” เรื่องราวของเมย์ พนักงานร้านสะดวกซื้อ หลังเลิกงานเธอออกตามหาคำตอบของคำถามที่เธอมีอยู่ในใจมาโดยตลอดว่า “เธอกำลังทำอะไรอยู่”

I DON'T BELONG ON EARTH

NR 2024
TA – NEE

At a village that a thief has stolen for a long time .Then the government must send “ Amnart “ who is a officer to lookafter here . He meet Duan , a daughter’s village headman while he falls in love Tanee , who is a mystery lady. Until Pair, his fiancee visits him to make Duan unpleased. Therefore , she asks Moon , a rowdy in the village to arrest Pair to rapes her but Tanee safe from rowdy.This event makes everybody fear Tanee as well as Amnart too. Because in actually she’s soul that he can’t alive with her in the realtime. He gives a shrine to her which he would like to confess Tanee.

TA – NEE

NR 2005