Two Little Soldiers

Pen-ek Ratanaruang’s short film Two Little Soldiers (สาวสะเมิน), accompanied by a dozen black-and-white drawings, will be shown at Gallery Seescape in Chiang Mai from tomorrow until 8th June. The film and drawings were previously shown at last year’s Bangkok Art Biennale (บางกอก อาร์ต เบียนนาเล่). The drawings were created for Pen-ek’s two-volume graphic novel, Trouble in Paradise, which was published earlier this year. The book’s narrative is an expanded version of Two Little Soldiers, and it ends with an optimistic fantasy that sees the military junta convicted of treason. (The twelve drawings in the exhibition are less overtly political, however.)