Kein Exorzismus-Film

zusammenfassung

As one robotic voice recounts nightmarish returns to Thailand, another seeks to console. Moving through different incarnations, like entities from the Buddhist cosmology, the correspondence of voices fuse with images of Thailand’s aggressive urban development, personal (and historical) dread, and also hope through the recent Thai pro-democracy movement.

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Exploring identity deconstructions, belonging anxieties, migration narratives, and historical reclamations through the interplay of reality and fiction, Thai artist filmmaker Komtouch Dew NAPATTALOONG’s latest video piece, ‘NO EXORCISM FILM,’ competed at CPH:DOX 2024 for the NEW:VISION award and screened at the 68th BFI London Experimenta strand. His debut feature documentary, ‘HOURS OF OURS,’ premiered at the Visions du Réel 2023 International Competition. A 2016 Abbas Kiarostami Filmmaking in Cuba Workshop participant and a 2024 Berlinale Talents participant, his works have also been showcased at international festivals such as Visions du Réel, SingaporeIFF, Festival Film Dokumenter Jogja, Mar del Plata, and Sheffield DocFest. Additionally, his works have been featured at the Bangkok Biennial, Protocinema’s A Few In Many Places Bangkok exhibition, and Thailand Biennale’s Open World Cinema.