Afterlight

Director Littichai Siriprasitpong collaborates with choreographer and dancer Dujdao Vadhanapakorn to produce an emotionally engagingly mesmerising performance piece. Afterlight is a fusion of expressive contemporary and Thai movements reduced to their purest form as a way of questioning ideas of the internalized identity and belonging. Screened alongside a live performance during the Bangkok Biennale in 2018, the film explores colonial mentality and western influence in East Asia through the Thai Gaze.

 

 

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The film is as much about the performance as it is the space: the East Asiatic Company Building is a vacant and crumbling memento marking over one hundred years of European trade and cultural influence in Thailand. Bangkok-based filmmaker Littichai comments, “in consequence of globalization and the absence of awareness of our cultural backgrounds, Thai culture is more mixed and baffled than ever.“
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"My intention as a director is to be as much of an observer of the performance as possible. Ultimately, the project is to capture her performance in its truest form possible.”
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