Tulapop Saenjaroen – A Room with a Coconut View (2018)
“A Room with a Coconut View” tells a story of Kanya, a tour guide and hotel rep automated voice, who leads her foreign automated-voice guest Alex through a deceptively aestheticised beach town in the east of Thailand. Dissatisfied by the sanitised, touristic images, Alex decides to explore alone. Local corruption becomes intertwined with the history of Thai cinema, and Alex begins to question how images have been used to mediate his understanding of the world.
Through a fictionalised account of the bodiless voices hovering over commercially made presentation and historical strata, “A Room with a Coconut View” is an essayistic investigation of the politico-aesthetic relation through imagery surface and its netlike-technology apparatuses with a capitalistic-dictatorial-touristy regime as a backdrop.
Language(s):Thai
Subtitles:English Hardsub
