“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
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Developed at
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