The Anniversary

Cinema’s vocation in a time of darkness. A year after the Thai coup.

Taiki Sakpisit: again, and this time

This is a recent piece I wrote on the astonishing videos of Bangkok-based artist Taiki Sakpisit. I got intrigued by the way he uses montage and repetition, especially in later work, to evoke the sense of risk and urgency in

Watch out for consensus

Nontawat Numbenchapol’s Boundary (2013) will now be given an 18+ rating rather than an outright ban. The Thai censors have done a half-turn on this documentary, which presents the experiences and perspectives of low rank soldiers and borderland people caught