The Mental Traveller
The Mental Traveller meditates on the passing of time, external behavior and sensory reality for five
men on a psychiatric ward. The film was conceived from the
director’s connections to his parents and companions as they went
through states of sickness, impending death, dementia, grief and
temporary insanity. At the same time, it echoes the turbulent
years of political upheavals and repercussions in Thailand, resulting
in a nation in a state of delirium, lunacy and trauma.
Also in this combined programme
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Le silence des sirènes
Kafka’s reimagining of the deadly sirens is the inspiration behind this intimate portrait of a young woman struggling with her identity.
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Kodak
In 2012, Kodak went bankrupt. Enter the mind’s eye of a blind former Kodak film technician, reconstructing the past in hallucinatory detail.<
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Film details
- Country of production
- Thailand
- Year
- 2019
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2019
- Length
- 18"
- Medium/Format
- DCP
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