The Reading Room art library and screening space is relocating after fifteen years at Silom in Bangkok. On its last day at its original location, 31st March, it will host a valedictory Wildtype programme of short films titled Re-Wild.
The event will include Paisit Punpruksachart’s อัติภาวะนิยมสุขสันต์ (‘existential happiness’), a 2004 music video featuring documentary footage of pigs being killed in a slaughterhouse, and Manussak Dokmai’s นครพนมมือบ้าง ไม่พนมมือบ้าง (‘Nakhon Phanom: some pray, some don’t’) from 2010, which includes images from 6th October 1976 on a camera’s LCD screen. Both films were previously shown at You Say You Want a Revolution (เปลี่ยนเถิดชาวไทย) in 2011.
Surprisingly, อัติภาวะนิยมสุขสันต์ is one of three Thai films featuring pigs being killed: the others are Chaweng Chaiyawan’s Please... See Us (หว่างีมอละ) and Amrit Chusuwan’s Pig’s Story. อัติภาวะนิยมสุขสันต์ was previously shown at the Reading Room as part of Wildtype Masterclass no. 4 in 2018, and at Bioscope Theatre’s Off Record in 2008.
The event will include Paisit Punpruksachart’s อัติภาวะนิยมสุขสันต์ (‘existential happiness’), a 2004 music video featuring documentary footage of pigs being killed in a slaughterhouse, and Manussak Dokmai’s นครพนมมือบ้าง ไม่พนมมือบ้าง (‘Nakhon Phanom: some pray, some don’t’) from 2010, which includes images from 6th October 1976 on a camera’s LCD screen. Both films were previously shown at You Say You Want a Revolution (เปลี่ยนเถิดชาวไทย) in 2011.
Surprisingly, อัติภาวะนิยมสุขสันต์ is one of three Thai films featuring pigs being killed: the others are Chaweng Chaiyawan’s Please... See Us (หว่างีมอละ) and Amrit Chusuwan’s Pig’s Story. อัติภาวะนิยมสุขสันต์ was previously shown at the Reading Room as part of Wildtype Masterclass no. 4 in 2018, and at Bioscope Theatre’s Off Record in 2008.