13 February 2025

PHOTOPSIA's 2nd Public Program| A rigorous selection process for Photopsia: Open Call for Video Arts, Moving Images, and Experimental Short Films, uncovered inventive talent from over 500 submissions, highlighting an incredible potential for artistic expression and innovation.

We are thrilled to introduce Flickering Objects, a thought-provoking screening program curated by Suphon Niamkamnoet, as part of the Photopsia exhibition, which delves into the transformative realms of memory, history, and visual perception, inspiring new perspectives and possibilities.

 

13 February – 9 March 2025 / At 100 Tonson Foundation

PROGRAM (50 minutes)

Omitting 1986
Louis Gahide | 2024 | 5:51 minutes

Homing Desires
Anastacia Mala | 2023 | 6 minutes

ORBITOR
Sirasin Pangprasertkun | 2024 | 28 minutes

ที่ซึ่งมีแสง (Into a Flame)
Parin Intarasorn | 2024 | 10:26 minutes

 

The screening program will be showcased as part of Nat Setthana's Photopsia, a site-specific installation at the 100 Tonson Foundation. The premiere is scheduled for February 13, 2025, and the program will continue as a video installation within the exhibition space until March 9, 2025.

Photo credit: Omitting 1986, Louis Gahide

 

ABOUT THE FILMS

✷ Omitting 1986
Louis Gahide | 2024 | 5:51 minutes

Omitting 1986 emerges from the artist’s practice of scratching and manipulating film purchased from a flea market, later identified as a film roll of an anti-war French comedy by Les Harlots. Through experimentation with film as historical material, the artist engages in processes of distortion, recontextualization, and reimagining to examine the entanglement of the individual and collective, past and present, and the possibilities of memory beyond material constraints.



✷ Homing Desires
Anastacia Mala | 2023
| 6 minutes

Reflecting on her diasporic experience as a Malaysian raised in Norway, Anastacia Mala manipulates archived home videos by replacing the binary codes of the video files with significant dates from her personal life. This process creates glitches in the footage, combined with melancholic melodies composed by the artist. Home Desires explores the fragility and disruption of memory, capturing the emotional dissonance between a past that feels distant and a present of displacement.



✷ ORBITOR
Sirasin Pangprasertkun | 2024 |28 minutes

ORBITOR weaves a poetic narrative revolving around the 1966 Lunar Orbiter mission, narrated and infused with interviews of the artist's grandparents, recalling their fragmented memories of that same year. The layering of narrative and the ambient hum of a radio crash, disrupt, and interfere with each other, revealing a haunting blurred portrait of Thailand in the Cold War era, oscillating between personal memory and geopolitical histories.



✷ Into a Flame
Parin Intarasorn | 2024 | 10:26 minutes

Into a Flame is an experimental documentary, observing the space within a textile factory from a perspective that is neither too distant nor too close, exploring the relationship between humans and nonhumans. Without dialogue—only the rhythmic hum of machines and the silent presence of workers—the film leaves a lingering afterimage, evoking a metaphorical experience, akin to flapping swarmers drawn irresistibly to light.