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| Proposal for the film programmes
“Lak-ka-pid-lak-ka-perd: the Bangkok Invisible Landscape” Along with art exhibitions, series of seminars, the “Lak-ka-pid-lak-ka-perd: the Bangkok Invisible Landscape” project comprises film programme, which will screen the diverse films on Bangkok. It will be held at House Rama, as a special film programs from March 13 to April 15, 2005. Bangkok has been explored and represented through many mediums and with much intense degrees during the past two decades where the technology bypass all the problems of time and distance and where the information could reach even the most remotest corners of the world. That is to say, the way we experience Bangkok not only by being in the city but also through the representations. Needless to say, one of the signification and compelling representation is filmic image, which is now a major source of imagination and creativity where the city could be experienced beyond our banal everyday life. The relationship between filmic images and city of Bangkok has been one that closely intricate and interwoven with various ways in which the city’s inhabitants response to the transformation of the city over the years. The city cannot be considered as a mere backdrop for the film as it is made to believe in the past. It has become a space of contradictions where the multiple forces in the society make visible within the screen as well as provided the multiple readings for each of the inhabitant. Moreover the relationship between the two has never been closer when the city that we used to know has been threatened with the changes and many features have been disappeared while the filmic images are also threatened by the state of disappearance as the popularity of the digital medium increase. |
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| The film programme aims to explore these relationships between city, filmic images as well as its inhabitants: how the filmic images may capture the transformations that left outside the realm of everyday representation and our conscious. The Bangkok we know and experience and what have been represented elsewhere (city of prostitute, of drugs, of lady boy, and etc.) may represent two different cities. What is the real Bangkok may never can represent in one single entity as anyone of this film, or in any art piece, demonstrate. Perhaps it is between the two that one can find the real Bangkok, if there is one that exists.
Therefore, the film programmes will collect three different groups of films, which stand for different viewpoints on Bangkok. The first is a group of short films on Bangkok that will be made by artists and filmmakers particularly for this project ( Bangkok Lak-ka-pid-lak-ka-perd). The second group is newly made films (short, documentary, etc.) on Bangkok during the past few years both from foreigners and Thai filmmakers. The third is from the selection of films in competition on a theme “A Day in (the other) Bangkok”. These films represent diverse views on the city with a mixture of different expectations, prejudges and information sources behind. Screening all within the same programmes will create an opportunities to see the wide rage of the images of Bangkok, and naturally reveal a curious relationships between the represented images and the city itself. |