The filmmakers #BenRivers and #AnochaSuwichakornpong met at the Thailand Bienniale and decided to work together on a project: specifically on Krabi, a touristy Southwestern town. And no Doubt, the collaboration between two of the most adventurous contemporary filmmakers produces a multi-layered & intoxicating work that is a part travelogue, part ethnological study, part Antonioni-esque mystery, part contemplation on artificiality of cinema & part Spatial-temporal musing on human existence. Collision and blurred line between the artificial and the real - the actors playing their parts mixed in with the locals, cinema as both business and nostalgia, neanderthals both reanacted and parodied, first world and third world, the symbiotic relationship of tourists and locals in popular tourist destination are all presented, in layers upon layers and they are delicious. #hybridfilm #thailand #experimentalfilm #krabi

Images in #BytheTimeItGetsDark are democratic- whether it's a trashy, seemingly inconsequential pop culture, the serious historical reenactments, Buddhist temple, disco tech & pixelated visual noise have the same value. Tobacco leaves and fungi, to give them meaning & purpose, these layers #AnochaSuwichakornpong presents will need to sit & rot. It's a very Dostoevskian concept. I am just amazed by her wisdom & skills to convey this kind of complicated thoughts through film medium. #thaicinema