Warat Bureephakdee’s short film Crazy Soft Power Love will be shown today at เทศกาลถนนศิลปะ ครั้งที่ 22 (‘the 22nd street art festival’) organised by Art Lane. The outdoor screening will take place at Khon Kaen University’s Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts. The event began on Valentine’s Day and finishes today.
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).