FILM WORKS
THESE LATICIFERS KEEP BLEEDING…
2025 | Singapore, Thailand, Finland | 56 mins | 3-Channel
First presented at Ghost2568 Wish We Were Here, 'These Laticifers Keep Bleeding...' is a three-channel video installation that melds together fragments from the larger Rubber Dreams of Its Lifetime collaborative project. Initiated by Bart Seng Wen Long and Kaisa Saarinen, the project explores rubber as commodity fetish and fetish commodity. With extensive field research focusing on Southeast Asian industries as a microcosm of globalized supply chains, it aims to produce a multi-disciplinary body of work which includes a documentary-fantasy film titled Heveaphilia. Subverting mainstream perception of fetishism, the work employs the transformative potential of the fetish to disrupt and expand understandings of the material and its profound influence on social history, pre-modern spirituality, geopolitics, and metaphysics. The project is joined by Komtouch Napattaloong on rubber production and its entangled histories in Southern Thailand. Spiraling out from this collaboration, the film In the Land of Lady White Blood explores both personal and regional histories of Southern Thailand through essayistic and "post-documentary" cinematic forms. Through the prism of “white blood”, a recurring image tied to latex harvesting, contested land, and regional myths, the film traces overlapping legacies of power and violence ranging from the fall of the Singora Sultanate, murky family lineages, and the development of napalm to the 1970s anti-communist purges.
2025 | Singapore, Thailand, Finland | 56 mins | 3-Channel
First presented at Ghost2568 Wish We Were Here, 'These Laticifers Keep Bleeding...' is a three-channel video installation that melds together fragments from the larger Rubber Dreams of Its Lifetime collaborative project. Initiated by Bart Seng Wen Long and Kaisa Saarinen, the project explores rubber as commodity fetish and fetish commodity. With extensive field research focusing on Southeast Asian industries as a microcosm of globalized supply chains, it aims to produce a multi-disciplinary body of work which includes a documentary-fantasy film titled Heveaphilia. Subverting mainstream perception of fetishism, the work employs the transformative potential of the fetish to disrupt and expand understandings of the material and its profound influence on social history, pre-modern spirituality, geopolitics, and metaphysics. The project is joined by Komtouch Napattaloong on rubber production and its entangled histories in Southern Thailand. Spiraling out from this collaboration, the film In the Land of Lady White Blood explores both personal and regional histories of Southern Thailand through essayistic and "post-documentary" cinematic forms. Through the prism of “white blood”, a recurring image tied to latex harvesting, contested land, and regional myths, the film traces overlapping legacies of power and violence ranging from the fall of the Singora Sultanate, murky family lineages, and the development of napalm to the 1970s anti-communist purges.
MY NAME IS MARILYN, A DAUGHTER OF SA-UDORN
2025 | Thailand | 6.15mins | 4:3
Installed in the radar building of the Ramasun Historical Museum, this silent video work, My Name is Marilyn, a Daughter of Sa-Udorn (2025), confronts the enduring myths and legacies of American empire. Here, the iconic visual of Marilyn Monroe, found as a discarded statue behind a resort en route to Ban Chiang, reappears masked. Her face is obscured by a cloth mask commonly worn by Thai migrant laborers in the Middle East to shield themselves from the sun and dust. This work was first presented at Noir Row Art Space’s PARALLEL II INTERZONE in Udon Thani, Thailand, 18 Oct - 30 Nov 2025. It is the first work to emerge from the larger Pickers and Packers project. Co-initiated by scholar-activist Shahar Shoham and artist-filmmaker Komtouch Napattaloong, Pickers and Packers is a multimodal, ongoing exploration based on Shoham’s research into the lives of Isaan migrant workers and their entanglement with structures of occupation and migration regimes shaped by Thailand–Israel long-term bilateral cooperation. This cooperation highlights the legacies of American imperial interventions through the exploitation of labor power, spanning from Udon Thani to the Middle East and back.
2025 | Thailand | 6.15mins | 4:3
Installed in the radar building of the Ramasun Historical Museum, this silent video work, My Name is Marilyn, a Daughter of Sa-Udorn (2025), confronts the enduring myths and legacies of American empire. Here, the iconic visual of Marilyn Monroe, found as a discarded statue behind a resort en route to Ban Chiang, reappears masked. Her face is obscured by a cloth mask commonly worn by Thai migrant laborers in the Middle East to shield themselves from the sun and dust. This work was first presented at Noir Row Art Space’s PARALLEL II INTERZONE in Udon Thani, Thailand, 18 Oct - 30 Nov 2025. It is the first work to emerge from the larger Pickers and Packers project. Co-initiated by scholar-activist Shahar Shoham and artist-filmmaker Komtouch Napattaloong, Pickers and Packers is a multimodal, ongoing exploration based on Shoham’s research into the lives of Isaan migrant workers and their entanglement with structures of occupation and migration regimes shaped by Thailand–Israel long-term bilateral cooperation. This cooperation highlights the legacies of American imperial interventions through the exploitation of labor power, spanning from Udon Thani to the Middle East and back.
NO EXORCISM FILM
2024 | Thailand | 20 minutes | 4:3
As one robotic voice recounts nightmarish returns to Thailand, another seeks to console. Moving through different incarnations, like entities from the Buddhist cosmology, the correspondence of voices fuse with images of Thailand’s aggressive urban development, personal (and historical) dread, and also hope through the current Thai pro-democracy youth movement.
CPH:DOX 2024 (New:Vision competition), 68th BFI London (Experimenta), 31st FICValdivia (Nuevos Caminos), Wildtype 2024, FFDJogja 2024, 39th Mar del Plata, SGIFF 2024, 28th Thai Short Film and Video Festival (second prize RD Pestonji Award), 7th BEFF, Jeonju IFF 2025, EXiS 2025 International Competition, YamagataIDFF 2025
2024 | Thailand | 20 minutes | 4:3
As one robotic voice recounts nightmarish returns to Thailand, another seeks to console. Moving through different incarnations, like entities from the Buddhist cosmology, the correspondence of voices fuse with images of Thailand’s aggressive urban development, personal (and historical) dread, and also hope through the current Thai pro-democracy youth movement.
CPH:DOX 2024 (New:Vision competition), 68th BFI London (Experimenta), 31st FICValdivia (Nuevos Caminos), Wildtype 2024, FFDJogja 2024, 39th Mar del Plata, SGIFF 2024, 28th Thai Short Film and Video Festival (second prize RD Pestonji Award), 7th BEFF, Jeonju IFF 2025, EXiS 2025 International Competition, YamagataIDFF 2025
HOURS OF OURS
2023 | Thailand | 85 minutes | 2K
A young Sudanese family flees their country and arrives in Bangkok to seek asylum. They meet a young Thai filmmaker who has just returned home after a decade abroad. Despite the uncertain future facing the family, they form a deep connection and decide to make a film together. Hours of Ours follows the Ibrahim family's journey as they navigate the challenges of living in an indefinite transitory state while they wait for approval to be resettled into a third country.
Visions du Réel 2023 (International Feature Film Competition), Singapore International Film Festival 2023 (Horizon), Festival Film Dokumenter 2023 (Main Competition)
2023 | Thailand | 85 minutes | 2K
A young Sudanese family flees their country and arrives in Bangkok to seek asylum. They meet a young Thai filmmaker who has just returned home after a decade abroad. Despite the uncertain future facing the family, they form a deep connection and decide to make a film together. Hours of Ours follows the Ibrahim family's journey as they navigate the challenges of living in an indefinite transitory state while they wait for approval to be resettled into a third country.
Visions du Réel 2023 (International Feature Film Competition), Singapore International Film Festival 2023 (Horizon), Festival Film Dokumenter 2023 (Main Competition)
FREQUENT COLLABORATOR ASSEMBLY
2021 | Thailand | 17 minutes | 3-channel
With moving images collected from broken and low-grade cameras, the piece continues a long-term investigation into notions of movement and belonging, through an engagement with Thai history (personal and political), identity, and urban asylum-seeker narratives, who have no specific domestic legal framework for protection in Thailand.
A Few In Many Places, “Frequent Collaborator” exhibition, Monitor Lizard House, Bangkok Thailand, June - July 2021
2021 | Thailand | 17 minutes | 3-channel
With moving images collected from broken and low-grade cameras, the piece continues a long-term investigation into notions of movement and belonging, through an engagement with Thai history (personal and political), identity, and urban asylum-seeker narratives, who have no specific domestic legal framework for protection in Thailand.
A Few In Many Places, “Frequent Collaborator” exhibition, Monitor Lizard House, Bangkok Thailand, June - July 2021
UNMOVED EXPANDED
2021 | Thailand | 22 minutes | 2-channel
In the outskirts of Bangkok, a community of Hmong-Vietnamese asylum seekers lives incognito for nearly a decade. Assembled from pre-pandemic research footage, the film revolves around an interview with two members of the community, an old lady and an unidentified man, to illuminate the past, present, and future of these families who are weaved into an indifferent Thai environment.
A Few In Many Places, “Frequent Collaborator” exhibition, Monitor Lizard House, Bangkok Thailand, June - July 2021
2021 | Thailand | 22 minutes | 2-channel
In the outskirts of Bangkok, a community of Hmong-Vietnamese asylum seekers lives incognito for nearly a decade. Assembled from pre-pandemic research footage, the film revolves around an interview with two members of the community, an old lady and an unidentified man, to illuminate the past, present, and future of these families who are weaved into an indifferent Thai environment.
A Few In Many Places, “Frequent Collaborator” exhibition, Monitor Lizard House, Bangkok Thailand, June - July 2021
THE SKY IS FALLING
2018 | Thailand | 5 minutes | SD
A failing digital camera records a train ride heading into Bangkok in the wake of King Rama IX's passing, marking a shift in Thai history that brings new anxieties. This video was captured using an old digital camera that once belonged to my mother. I embued it with animistic qualities, personifying the decaying technology as an old family member laboring past its use- in the last moments of its life. The result is a non-human vision of the world.
Do You See The Sky Falling? solo exhibition, Gallery Ekamian, Bangkok Thailand, January – March 2018
2018 | Thailand | 5 minutes | SD
A failing digital camera records a train ride heading into Bangkok in the wake of King Rama IX's passing, marking a shift in Thai history that brings new anxieties. This video was captured using an old digital camera that once belonged to my mother. I embued it with animistic qualities, personifying the decaying technology as an old family member laboring past its use- in the last moments of its life. The result is a non-human vision of the world.
Do You See The Sky Falling? solo exhibition, Gallery Ekamian, Bangkok Thailand, January – March 2018
EL CIELO
2016 | Cuba | 11 minutes | HD
An old woman lives alone in rural Cuba. One day her long lost son returns home to visit but only just briefly.
made during the workshop for the authors, "Filming in Cuba with Abbas Kiarostami” by Black Factory Cinema in collaboration with Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television de Cuba
2016 | Cuba | 11 minutes | HD
An old woman lives alone in rural Cuba. One day her long lost son returns home to visit but only just briefly.
made during the workshop for the authors, "Filming in Cuba with Abbas Kiarostami” by Black Factory Cinema in collaboration with Escuela Internacional de Cine y Television de Cuba
PRODUCED WORKS
BREAKING THE CYCLE (dir. Aekaphong Saransate, Thanakrit Duangmaneeporn)
2024 | Thailand | 117 minutes | 4K
A group of young politicians campaigning against an authoritarian constitution speak up, spark hope and ignite a once-in-a-generation movement in this energetic exploration of the recent elections in Thailand.
Hot Docs 2024, VC Film Festival 2024, Sheffield DocFest 2024 (Time Hetherington Award nominee)
2024 | Thailand | 117 minutes | 4K
A group of young politicians campaigning against an authoritarian constitution speak up, spark hope and ignite a once-in-a-generation movement in this energetic exploration of the recent elections in Thailand.
Hot Docs 2024, VC Film Festival 2024, Sheffield DocFest 2024 (Time Hetherington Award nominee)
SOIL WITHOUT LAND (dir. Nontawat Numbenchapol)
2019 | Thailand | 80 minutes | 4K
The documentary follows Sang Lod, who loses his family and at the age of 18, joins the Shan State Army (SSA) to become a soldier with a lifetime duty to fight for Shan liberation from the Burmese.
Visions du Réel 2019 (International Feature Film Competition), Special Jury Prize at TIDF 2021
2019 | Thailand | 80 minutes | 4K
The documentary follows Sang Lod, who loses his family and at the age of 18, joins the Shan State Army (SSA) to become a soldier with a lifetime duty to fight for Shan liberation from the Burmese.
Visions du Réel 2019 (International Feature Film Competition), Special Jury Prize at TIDF 2021
