Traces and Fragments of Memory 2020

Directed by Wichanon Somumjarn

With a function of camera recorded. The filmmaker started filming “Prang Sam Yot” an archaeological site in Lopburi Province in the south-northern of Thailand. And then the story jump to “Prang Ku” an archaeological site in Khon Kaen Province in the north-eastern with same architecture. Like a poetry cinema. The film recorded everyday life and realism with non-linear. Lopburi, Khon Kaen and Bangkok or sometime in “non-place” “Traces and Fragments of Memory” is an experimental film in creative documentary style. The filmmaker convey an aesthetic of the film by deconstructed a “Hollywood Film Language”. It’s try the film back to the first conception of cinema without intervene.