Malee and the Boy
video, 27 minutes, 1999


  Originally called Malee and the Boy and His Microphone and a Hungry Satan, this is a collaborative project with a 10 year-old boy who is in charge of the microphone. The boy roams to places around Bangkok to gather sounds for the project. The sound appears on the film indicates the direction he headed during the filming and displays his point of interests. The filmmaker is in charge of the image, film roughly along at the boy’s locations. The narrative of the film, presented in texts, is taken from a Thai comic book available around the place of the filming. This faces and places documentation can be viewed as a one-afternoon diary of a day out in Bangkok.