Wattanapume Laisuwanchai’s video The Body Craves Impact as Love Bursts (ร่างกายอยากปะทะ เพราะรักมันปะทุ) and short film Dreamscape will be shown as part of a retrospective of the director’s work programmed by Wildtype later this month. Cinemine/d จากจอสู่ใจโปรแกรม (‘a programme from the screen to the heart’), the sixth in Wildtype’s Masterclass series, will take place on 19th and 20th April.
Screenings will be held at arts venues arond Thailand: GalileOasis in Bangkok, A.E.Y. Space in Songkla, and Noir Row Art Space in Udon Thani. There will also be screenings organised by local film societies: Berng Nang Club at Ready for the Week-end in Khon Kaen, ดูหนังในห้องนั้น (‘watch a movie in that room’) at Loftster in Korat, and jointly by Untitled for Film and Dude, Movie at Suan Anya in Chiang Mai. The Body Craves Impact as Love Bursts and Dreamscape will both be shown on 20th April.
Screenings will be held at arts venues arond Thailand: GalileOasis in Bangkok, A.E.Y. Space in Songkla, and Noir Row Art Space in Udon Thani. There will also be screenings organised by local film societies: Berng Nang Club at Ready for the Week-end in Khon Kaen, ดูหนังในห้องนั้น (‘watch a movie in that room’) at Loftster in Korat, and jointly by Untitled for Film and Dude, Movie at Suan Anya in Chiang Mai. The Body Craves Impact as Love Bursts and Dreamscape will both be shown on 20th April.
In The Body Craves Impact as Love Bursts, images of a man and woman are shown facing each other, yet separated. It was made in solidarity with the rapper Elevenfinger, who was jailed 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 has also been screened at The 7th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (เทศกาลหนังทดลองกรุงเทพฯ ครั้งที่ 7) and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop.
The Body Craves Impact as Love Bursts was first shown as a video installation at the Procession of Dystopia exhibition last year. It has also been screened at The 7th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (เทศกาลหนังทดลองกรุงเทพฯ ครั้งที่ 7) and Can’t Stop Won’t Stop.
Dreamscape is a record of the director’s Dreamscape Project, which was created as part of the Intimate Politik exhibition at Speedy Grandma in Bangkok, on display from 13th June to 5th July 2015. The project involved Wattanapume inviting members of the public to draw pictures representing their hopes and dreams for Bangkok’s future; he later scanned and animated the images, and projected them onto buildings around the city. (The project’s title is a reference to the optimistic dreams of the participants, and the cityscape of Bangkok.) The projections sometimes create provocative juxtapositions, such as a drawing of a homeless woman projected onto a wall in front of the Royal Hotel, which was used as the film’s poster.
The people who participated represented a diverse range of ages, incomes, and political viewpoints. (They were contacted in April 2015, less than a year after the 2014 coup, making discussion of politics almost unavoidable.) A high school student explains that King Rama IX is the only person able to solve Thailand’s political conflicts, citing the 14th October 1973 and 6th October 1976 massacres, though he says that he is only vaguely aware of the 1976 event. In a short documentary about the making of the film, The Journey of Dreamscape Project, a scout leader praises coup leader Prayut Chan-o-cha from the bottom of her heart.
The people who participated represented a diverse range of ages, incomes, and political viewpoints. (They were contacted in April 2015, less than a year after the 2014 coup, making discussion of politics almost unavoidable.) A high school student explains that King Rama IX is the only person able to solve Thailand’s political conflicts, citing the 14th October 1973 and 6th October 1976 massacres, though he says that he is only vaguely aware of the 1976 event. In a short documentary about the making of the film, The Journey of Dreamscape Project, a scout leader praises coup leader Prayut Chan-o-cha from the bottom of her heart.
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