Surached Pakdeesan

A collection of short films by five Thai directors imagining their country ten years into the future.

An 11-year-old boy steals money for bribes to remove his gay older brother from Thai military conscription rolls, unaware of the ramifications.

Towards the end of 2016, Noom meets Jane when he helps her throw garbage at the mall's disposal area. Their relationship grows at a noodle house. Roaming around the Memorial Bridge and smoking, Jane unlocks some repressed feelings about her family.

Squish! is a meditation on the self through lurid and liquid forms; filtered through both old and foreseeable technology informed by Thai animation history and contemporary culture, and a constant process of constructing and deforming new selves to simulate ‘movements’. By extrapolating and redefining the terms of ‘movement’, be it through psychological, physical or political understandings, the work interweaves the medium of animation with a state of depression.

A filmmaker's life isn't an easy one. Write a screenplay, develop a project, wrap it all in a shiny package, pitch it to producers. And in the meantime try to survive and not forget how to actually shoot a film.