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VISUAL SYMBIOSIS FILM FESTIVAL AT THE CHINATOWN RAMA, BANGKOK

​CROSS GENRE,
FICTION / NON FICTION,
COMBINATION
OF FICTIONAL &
​NON-FICTIONAL
NARRATIVE,
​NON NARRATIVE
WITH
STRONG
VISUAL ELEMENTS

SATURDAY,APRIL 20, 2019
11.53 PM TO 05.30 AM ON SUNDAY

​Visual Symbiosis and Gallery 253 Participative Art Space selected The Chinatown Rama to host Visual Symbiosis Film Festival (April 2019) for its cultural significance, a sense of history and transitions, also architectural style. Moreover, the theater possess authentic scent of the past, with rotten interior, smell of underground sewer in eternal summer heat, hundred of cats all over the place, street food and community who live there. The place itself is a work of art. 

​LIST OF PARTICIPATED FILM MARKERS AND ARTISTS (pdf)

As part of a historic 1930s art deco building, the theater is located on the lower floor. Originally designed and functioned as Chinese opera house, later (possibly during 1950s) transformed to movie theater. The building has been known for many names such as Sri Meuang (ศรีเมือง) and New Laem Thong (นิวแหลมทอง) which were also former names of the theater, and also Seng Hang Li (เซ่งเฮงหลี) which is the name of the establishment who owns the property. In its glory days, there was a hotel on the upper floor while the theater running popular Hong Kong film. According to Sakkda Siri-Rattanapanya (ศักดา สิริรัตนปัญญา), a general manager of the theater who has been with the place for many decades, contrast to upscale theater of its former self, nowadays runs whichever movies sent by local distributors, from noon until 8.00 PM with an old digital projector.

​EXHIBITION CATALOG / CATALOG .JPG - higher resolution -
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PHANTOM OF ILLUMINATION by Wattanapume Laisuwanchai - hybrid documentary about vanishing stand alone theater in Bangkok (2017) 
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MURDER OF AN EMPTY HEART by Supisara Panichkasem - the first part of on-going experimental project (2019) about an unreliable narrator
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THE LOST MOTHERLAND (2018) by Ampannee Satoh - visual sequence / cultural identity, nation state, faith and individuality
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in collaboration with THE 60 SECOND FILM FESTIVAL
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RUBY ROBBER by Kantee Teerawaropas - experimental short 
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BEING NEGLECTED by Jakkrapan Sriwichai - short film about hitchhiker and a mysterious girl on empty road 
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NOR LAE by Ugrid Jomyim - visual sequence / ethic people in Nor Lae, Chiang mai
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NISA THE POB by Alwa Ritsila - a relationship between a stalker and a girl next-door who possessed by flesh eating spirit 
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LOVE SEQUENCE NO.1 and NO.2 by Burich Sripol and Napassakorn Pratuan -
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TO FEEL  by Prempapan Plittapolkranpim - short film
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DEAD PARADISE (part 1) by Kundech Nakpong and Kittitouch Bomlai - a real estate agent finds deal of the decade that too good to be true
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SILENT VIDEO by Sitanan Ruamrakbun - experiment 
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VISUAL SYMBIOSIS IN KHON KAEN curated by Kridpuj Dhansandors - DETAILS -
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