Using imperfect images of an old, nearly worn out point-and-shoot camera, a partial account of U.S.-funded development projects in northeast Thailand emerges from the remnants of an exhausted archive. In Sum skillfully combines archival footage with a speculative narrative device voiced by the camera itself to deliver a tactile essay rich in possibilities for reflection. By repurposing the images and emphasizing their deterioration, the film intertwines reflections on machine memory with a critique of American imperialism. Suspended between remembrance and forgetting, the film’s cinematic and archival gestures begin to falter as they attempt to reconstruct and represent a chapter of Thai history that resists its own erasure. (MF)
North American Premiere
competition : International Short and Medium-Length Competition
In Sum
- Country : Thailand
- Year : 2026
- V.O : English, Thai
- Subtitles : English
- Duration : 17 MIN
- Editing : Komtouch Napattaloong
- Production : Dano Napattloong
- Music : Liew Niyomkarn
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Berlinale Forum Expanded | Jeonju Internation Film Festival | UnArchive Festival | 25 FPS Festival | New Zealand International Film Festival | Bangkok International Film Festival | Singapore International Film Festival
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