Patcha Poonpiriya

  • Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit – Die Tomorrow (2017)

    2011-2020ArthouseNawapol ThamrongrattanaritThailand

    Are you afraid of death? According to statistics, two people on earth die each second. Die Tomorrow zeroes in on the last day of its protagonists, each of whom have no idea of their fate. The film picks up on six everyday situations and turns them into moving stories. With true lightness of touch, director Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit forges shots that play out over considerable time and then combines them with documentary-like interview footage, news reports, sound recordings, statistics and archive material, thus creating an elaborate essay. In view of what is about to happen, small snatches of conversation take on dramatic dimensions for the viewer.Read More »

  • Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit – Die Tomorrow (2017)

    2011-2020ArthouseNawapol ThamrongrattanaritThailand

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    Are you afraid of death? According to statistics, two people on earth die each second. Die Tomorrow zeroes in on the last day of its protagonists, each of whom have no idea of their fate. The film picks up on six everyday situations and turns them into moving stories. With true lightness of touch, director Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit forges shots that play out over considerable time and then combines them with documentary-like interview footage, news reports, sound recordings, statistics and archive material, thus creating an elaborate essay. Read More »

  • Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit – Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy (2013)

    2011-2020ArthouseExperimentalNawapol ThamrongrattanaritThailand

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    from Pan Asian Film Festival 2014
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    Portraying a character struggling to make sense of her life as it threatens to spin out of control, Nawapol’s brilliant second film creates an inventive narrative of an uncontrollable life through a brilliantly modern artistic concept: to adapt a Twitter stream into a fictional film.

    The director used 410 real Tweets from an anonymous girl as a springboard to create a fantasy world of a contemporary Asian teenager, and the results are funny and strange, a conflation of modern Thai teenage life, Wes Anderson-esque humour, and the possibilities for escape offered by the digital world.Read More »

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