In the town of Krabi, a popular tourist destination in southern Thailand, the pre-historic, the recent past and the contemporary capitalist world awkwardly collide. The town’s local folklore and histories are promoted as attractions to foreigners, while the town’s traditional labour force is muted and hidden from the tourists’ eyes. A nameless character, whose identity […]
A Thai cardiologist flips through fifteen books of nature sketches and notes, lovingly drawn and painted over thirty years. This is a premise to an absorbing and amusing documentary on the life of Rungsrit Kanjanavanit or ‘Dr Mong’, a wellknown Thai conservationist, bird-watcher and nature artist. Aside from a talent for story-telling as he relates […]
This film is set in the border of Myanmar and Northern Thailand. It’s a buffer zone in the Shan State where Shan Refugees, who have fled the ethnic war in Myanmar, live. It’s a self-governing region by the Shan State Army with a mission to liberate the Shan people from Myanmar. With a […]
Two teenage boys fend for themselves by becoming a net idol YouTuber. They review products and tourist attractions for money through their candid and lively videos. Their ‘like’ and ‘follower’ numbers guarantee their popularity. However, when rival net idol YouTubers widely blossom and they get less and less job from their agent, the boys […]
A documentary on the general election campaign in 2011 focusing on three candidates who are Mahidol University, Medical College classmates, Cholnan Srikaew from Pheu Thai Party, Phumin Leetheeraprasert from Chatpattana Phen Phaendin Party who now joins Phalangpracharat Party and Banyat Chetanachan from Democrat Party. They went home to apply for the local MP candidate and […]
As events accelerate and darken, Part 4 of the Bangkok Joyride epic may lack superstars like Teacher Lily and be less ‘Woodstock’ than Part 3, but from the first it is filled with indelible images and moments of strange beauty. We experience it all directly, with no narration, unadorned, as the story emerges organically […]
