The film’s setting is a rear projection of NABUA (from the PRIMITIVE installation) and a recreation of a fluorescent light pole back in my hometown. I used this setting as a playground for the teens who emerged from the dark with a football raging with fire. They took turns kicking the ball that left illuminated trails on the grass. Finally they burned the screen revealing behind it the ghostly white beam of a projector.
Like A LETTER TO UNCLE BOONMEE, PHANTOMS OF NABUA is a portrait of home. The film portrays a communication of lights, the lights that exude, on the one hand, the comfort of home and, on the other, of destruction.