The films by Thai filmmaker Pom Bunsermvicha are instinctual. The filmmaker’s cinematic explorations of gender, culture, and tradition manifest in stories and situations that seem real but are also reimagined for the screen; upon repeated viewing, their films could also seem to shift in meaning. Having studied critical theory in university, Bunsermvicha learned to make films while being part of the Thai film community, where, in editing, they began to find a way to reframe their practice, and to reconstruct their own story. In this series of short films made in the last eight years, the filmmaker moves between fictive and real spaces to negotiate, reevaluate, and reconfigure the self—opening possibilities for other futures.

The screening on 30 August will be followed by a talk with the director Pom Bunsermvicha and M+ Curator of Moving Image Chanel Kong in English.

Pom Bunsermvicha (b. 1993, Thailand) is a non-binary independent filmmaker whose work is known for melding documentary and fiction elements within layered readings of social, cultural, and personal environments. A graduate of the Modern Culture and Media programme at Brown University, Bunsermvicha explores the frictions in existing power structures and makes films that critically confront and resist the impact of such structures on individual and collective bodies. An alumnus of Berlinale Talents and Locarno’s Open Doors Lab, they have shown their work across Southeast Asia and abroad, including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Locarno Film Festival, MoMA's Doc Fortnight, and the Barbican.