“Crazy Lotus” (บัวบ้า )
(HD, Color, Thai, 15 minutes)
Director, Editor, Screen Writer, Animator, Visual Effects
Awards
Tiger Short Award – 53rd International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL)
International Special Mention Award – 24th Kaohsiung Film Festival (TW)
First Prize, On The Edge Competition – 18th Zubroffka International Short Film Festival (PL)
Special Mention, Labo Competition – 19th Prague Shorts Film Festival (CZ)
Best Experimental Short – 5th Film Maudit 2.0 (US)
Synopsis
Crazy Lotus invites viewers into Blank Clock, a shifting city where physical and digital realities fold into one another. Guided by Distant Heart Glasses, its inhabitants drift through multiplying moments of connection as memory, data, and desire blur into a single sensory field. The work unfolds as an immersive moving-image experience shaped by rhythm, glitch, and unstable urban light, revealing a world where intimacy becomes algorithmic and escape becomes ritual. More than a narrative, it is a perception experiment in contemporary digital life.
Reviews
“A mesmerizing journey through a techno-authoritarian world, Crazy Lotus challenges perceptions of reality and connection.” – Le Polyester
…infinitely profound–extending itself into the far reaches of the universe. The longer the film plays, the further it expands.” – Bain’s Film Reviews
“…a range of images from wildly ecstatic to richly mundane….The film creates its own sci-fi lexicon..” – Horror DNA
“An innovative blend of speculative fiction and experimental visuals that resonates with contemporary digital anxieties.” – Explore New Voices in ASEAN Cinema
Distributed by
With the support of
Developed at
Berlinale Short Form Station 2020.
“When Her Light Is Extinguished” ( เมื่อแสงดับ )
(HD, B/W, Thai, 10 minutes)
Director, Producer, Screen Writer, Sound Designer
Award
3rd Place, Short film Category, 8th ReelheART International Film Festival (CA)
Synopsis
Conversation between buddha statue and a woman who tries to escape from a spirit in her dream.
Distributed by
Video Out ( distribution@vivomediaarts.com )
Film Stills
“We Love Me” ( เรารักเรา )
(HD, Color, Thai, 13 minutes)
Director, Editor, Screen Writer, Sound Designer
Awards
Audience Award, Deframed Competition – 34th Hamburg International Short Film Festival (DE)
Jury Prize, International Competition – 20th Paris Festival for Different and Experimental Cinema (FR)
First Prize – 9th FIVA International Video Art Festival Buenos Aires (AR)
Honorable Mention – 6th Macau International Video Art Festival (CN)
Synopsis
The heavily compressed time and space where all survival images from my memory live in. After journey, what will remain could be something we cannot talk to, but perceive.
With the support of
Distributed By
Collectif Jeune Cinema ( admin@cjcinema.org ), Video Out ( distribution@vivomediaarts.com )
Reviews
“…Possibly the most exciting example of complex sound/image relationships – the stuff of pure cinema, really.” – Cinema Scope
“This transgressive masterstroke of inappropriate actions will definitely leave you breathless.” – Jesse Hawthorne Ficks
“Naween Noppakun proposes a way for the recovery of the self by unveiling the layers, produced by cultural media and producers, that cover or disguise this alienation” – Desistfilm
Interview
# 18th Seoul International NewMedia Festival ( in Korean language*)
