Warat Bureephakdee’s Crazy Soft Power Love will be shown this evening at Rx Cafe in Chiang Mai. The screening is part of the Can’t Stop Won’t Stop (ไปให้สุด หยุดไม่อยู่) arts festival, which is raising awareness of the political crisis in Myanmar since the violent coup that took place there in 2021. (The festival’s Burmese title is မဆုတ်တမ်း မရပ်တမ်း.) The event began yesterday, and runs until the end of this month.
This will be Crazy Soft Power Love’s third screening this week, and its second screening today. It will also be shown in Korat this afternoon, as part of the With Love and White festival, and it was shown at เทศกาลถนนศิลปะ ครั้งที่ 22 (‘the 22nd street art festival’) in Khon Kaen on 16th February.
This will be Crazy Soft Power Love’s third screening this week, and its second screening today. It will also be shown in Korat this afternoon, as part of the With Love and White festival, and it was shown at เทศกาลถนนศิลปะ ครั้งที่ 22 (‘the 22nd street art festival’) in Khon Kaen on 16th February.
Crazy Soft Power Love is a satire on the government’s soft power strategy, culminating in a Songkran water fight that escalates into a brawl, intercut with footage from the 6th October 1976 massacre at Thammasat University. It was previously shown at Wildtype 2024, at the fourth Amazing Stoner Movie Fest (มหัศจรรย์หนังผี ครั้งที่ 4), and at last year’s Short Film Marathon (หนังสั้นมาราธอน).
Wattanapume Laisuwanchai’s video The Body Craves Impact as Love Bursts (ร่างกายอยากปะทะ เพราะรักมันปะทุ) will be shown at Rx Cafe tomorrow, also as part of the Can’t Stop Won’t Stop festival. In Wattanapume’s film, images of a man and woman are shown facing each other, yet separated. The project was made in solidarity with the rapper Elevenfinger, who is serving a prison sentence for possession of ping-pong bombs used in anti-government protests. The video ends dramatically with flashing images and footage of fireworks, filmed at Thalugaz protests in 2021.
The Body Craves Impact as Love Bursts was first shown as a video installation at the Procession of Dystopia exhibition last year. It was also screened at The 7th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (เทศกาลหนังทดลองกรุงเทพฯ ครั้งที่ 7).
Wattanapume Laisuwanchai’s video The Body Craves Impact as Love Bursts (ร่างกายอยากปะทะ เพราะรักมันปะทุ) will be shown at Rx Cafe tomorrow, also as part of the Can’t Stop Won’t Stop festival. In Wattanapume’s film, images of a man and woman are shown facing each other, yet separated. The project was made in solidarity with the rapper Elevenfinger, who is serving a prison sentence for possession of ping-pong bombs used in anti-government protests. The video ends dramatically with flashing images and footage of fireworks, filmed at Thalugaz protests in 2021.
The Body Craves Impact as Love Bursts was first shown as a video installation at the Procession of Dystopia exhibition last year. It was also screened at The 7th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (เทศกาลหนังทดลองกรุงเทพฯ ครั้งที่ 7).