Day 2 | Forest Cinema

Three films selected from the two editions of Ghost, a triennial video and performance art series in Bangkok, that show how natural and manufactured subjects can haunt and possess novel forms of life and knowledge.

Mangosteen dir Tulapop Saenjaroen (Thailand 2022: 39 min – still above)

Mangosteen tells the story of a young man who returns to his hometown, where his sister runs a fruit processing factory. But the more he tries to involve himself in the fruit juice business, the less he feels needed there and eventually decides to return to his old hobby, writing a violent, psychic, irrational, abstract, gory, and unrealistic novel …

Wa’anak Witu Watu dir Natasha Tontey (Indonesia, 2021: 24 min)

Researched on the North Sulawesi, Wa’anak Witu Watu investigates the fiction, myth, and cosmology of the native Minahasan and their relation to the geo entity stone from which all life came.

Blue dir Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thailand/France 2018: 12 min)

As an insomniac tries to sleep, we slip in and out of her visual worlds and realities.