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Prapat Jiwarangsan

Destination Nowhere

Doc. expérimental | hdv | couleur | 7:19 | Thaïlande | 2018

One day in Japan, a young man found out that a place he had thought his only home country rejected him. Destination Nowhere is a mix between an artist`s process of making a new artwork and a story about a young man who inspires the work. It`s also a story about Thailand, Japan, and the in-between world.

Prapat Jiwarangsan (b.1979, Bangkok) is a multidisciplinary artist and filmmaker who received his M.A. in Fine Arts from London’s Royal College of Art in 2011. In a unique, interdisciplinary practice, he usually returns to themes such as memory, political history, and nationalism, especially in Thai society. His installations have appeared in Bangkok, London, Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong and Rotterdam, while his videos have screened at international film events such as International Film Festival Rotterdam, Onion City Film Festival, Experimenta India, Open City Documentary Festival, Uppsala International Short Film Festival, and Singapore International Film Festival. From 2016 to 2019, Jiwarangsan’s work appeared at Japan’s Tokyo Arts and Space Hongo, Korea’s Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Myanmar’s The Secretariat and the Singapore Art Museum. Recently, his installation made from nine 35mm slide projectors was exhibited at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.