UNKNOWN FORCES

FEATURING TRACKS FOR REDCAT SPACE BY Cyndi Seui (Cesar b.de Guzman)

• Format HD/ HDV
• Length Vaires
• Number of Screens 4
• Aspect Ratio 1:1.78
• Sound Dolby 5.1/ Stereo
• Year 2007
  
  
  Commissioned by REDCAT
  

  For UNKNOWN FORCES, I warmly invited two of my regular actors to sit under the bright sun, on a pickup truck traveling along the highway. The act is a tribute to our land and our countrymen after the political maelstrom of 2006.

   

  UNKNOWN FORCES is also for the hard workers and hard drinkers of the northeast, my home region, who are the crux of Thailand’s booming real estate development. These workers are hauled around by contractors from one construction site to another, roaming cities and villages. Thailand’s landscape is shaped by these nomadic souls on pickup trucks. Like many actors I know, the workers have resided in a hierarchic system for so long that they are voiceless and are assigned to be part of an apolitical species. During last year’s political turmoil, some politicians hired workers to come to Bangkok to populate demonstrations and counter demonstrations at the royal park. Many of these workers had little idea of what was going on. They were just happy to be on a bus or a pickup truck and be transported somewhere.

   

  On many occasions I feel I am part of this pickup truck syndrome, fueled by a strange cocktail of politics, monarchy, and religion. In UNKNOWN FORCES, the characters are oblivious to changes and choose to remain in their blissful state. This installation celebrates the keys to our existence: powerlessness and ignorance.

• - Apichatpong Weerasethakul

   

Unknown Forces is funded in part by the Asian Cultural Council

Camera Corner, Bangkok; North Star World, Bangkok; and Siamlite Film Service, Bangkok.

Additional support provided by R23 and Smallroom, Bangkok

DIRECTOR/ EDITOR Apichatpong Weerasethakul

DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY Yukontorn Mingmongkon/ Apichatpong Weerasethakul

1 st ASSISTANT DIRECTOR Suchada Sirithanawuddhi

ACCOUNT ADMINISTRATOR Parichart Pu-Aree       

COORDINATOR Suphapich Thitithammasak

ART DIRECTOR Akekarat Homlaor

ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR Nitiping Thinthupthai

PROP MASTER I Montri Busayasiri

PROP MASTER II Manusak Phrommakhun

PANASONIC HD CAMERA North Star World

LIGHTING SERVICE Siamlite Film Service

STILL PHOTOGRAPHY Chayaporn Maneesutham/ Chaisiri Jiwarangsan

SONGS FOR REDCAT EXHIBITION BY Cyndi Seui

SOUND RECORDIST Chalermrat Kaweewattana

SOUND DESIGN/ SOUND MIX Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr

MIXING STUDIO Zealots Studio

POST PRODUCTION SUPERVISOR Lee Chatametikool

COMMISSIONED BY REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/ CalArts Theater, LA)

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