re:assemblage collective

― PROGRAM DETAILS ―

Originally screened Aug. 16, 2021 at Cafe Pamenar

A trilogy of films that explore displacements, transformations and the ebb and flow of urbanity are collected in this program of recent shorts by Daphne Xu and Prapat Jiwarangsan. Xu's A THOUSAND-YEAR STAGE features local residents and migrant workers in the rapidly shifting Xiongan New Area, a region in Hebei, China being transformed from a rural zone into a megacity. Jiwarangsan's DESTINATION NOWHERE tells the story of a Japanese-born Thai teenager whose mother, a Thai migrant worker who “illegally” lived in Japan for many years, was deported back to Thailand while alluding to the young man’s unrecognised status and his fight to stay in the only country he calls home. Jiwarangsan's THE ASYLUM follows DJ Dok Rak who worked at a radio station in Chiang Mai that was shut down after the 2014 coup d'etat in Thailand and "Ah Tay" a boy of Keren ethnicity who secretly works in a village and fears being sent back to Myanmar due to lack of identification documents.

A THOUSAND-YEAR STAGE / 千年舞台 · Daphne Xu DESTINATION NOWHERE · Prapat Jiwarangsan THE ASYLUM · Prapat Jiwarangsan

A THOUSAND-YEAR STAGE / 千年舞台

Directed by Daphne Xu
China, USA, Canada · 2020 · 36'00

Daphne Xu is a Chinese Canadian artist and filmmaker exploring the politics and poetics of place. Her practice engages observations of the everyday and of contested landscapes [↗]

― Previous screenings ―
Premiere at Visions du Reel 2020 · Art of the Real 2020 · Film at Lincoln Center · Guanajuato International Film Festival 2020 · Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival 2020 · Beijing 22 i: project space