Wildtype, the annual season of short films programmed by Chayanin Tiangpitayagorn, Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa, and Sasawat Boonsri, returns this month for its sixteenth year. After being held largely online in 2021 due to the coronavirus pandemic, the event has been expanding during the past few years, with screenings around the country in 2022, 2023, and 2024.
This year is no exception, and there will be screenings at Buffalo Bridge Gallery in Bangkok, A.E.Y. Space in Songkhla, Chiang Mai University’s Department of Media Arts and Design, Don’t Be Selfish in Phayao, Us coffee shop in Phatthalung, Lorem Ipsum in Hat Yai, Noir Row Art Space in Udon Thani, Berng Nang Club in Khon Kaen, and Vongchavalitkul University’s Faculty of Communication Arts in Korat. Wildtype 2025 begins on 20th September.
This year is no exception, and there will be screenings at Buffalo Bridge Gallery in Bangkok, A.E.Y. Space in Songkhla, Chiang Mai University’s Department of Media Arts and Design, Don’t Be Selfish in Phayao, Us coffee shop in Phatthalung, Lorem Ipsum in Hat Yai, Noir Row Art Space in Udon Thani, Berng Nang Club in Khon Kaen, and Vongchavalitkul University’s Faculty of Communication Arts in Korat. Wildtype 2025 begins on 20th September.
One of this year’s highlights is The Returning (วนเวียน), a short film by Supong Jitmuang documenting the growing attendance at events commemorating the 6th October 1976 Thammasat University massacre since 2020. (Supong also directed the documentary Mob 2020–2021.)
The short film Oblivion (เลือน), a collage of found footage woven into a magical realist allegory, is also included. Directed under the pseudonym Burindh the Golden Goby, it’s another of the fifty or more films that refer to the 1976 massacre.
The Returning and Oblivion will both be shown as part of a programme titled The Party and the Guest at Buffalo Bridge and Don’t Be Selfish on 21st September, at CMU on 23rd September, and at Vongchavalitkul on 1st October. Wildtype runs until 3rd October.
The short film Oblivion (เลือน), a collage of found footage woven into a magical realist allegory, is also included. Directed under the pseudonym Burindh the Golden Goby, it’s another of the fifty or more films that refer to the 1976 massacre.
The Returning and Oblivion will both be shown as part of a programme titled The Party and the Guest at Buffalo Bridge and Don’t Be Selfish on 21st September, at CMU on 23rd September, and at Vongchavalitkul on 1st October. Wildtype runs until 3rd October.
