Making room

Making Room is an evening with a twilight screening of two short films by Phassarawin Kulsomboon, together with live music and visual performance by the contemporary artist collective TYOY.

About Music:

The performance will immerse the audience in new compositions that blend sound and visuals to convey abstract emotions. A key highlight of the event is the screening of two short films accompanied by a musical score. What makes this performance interesting is its focus on blending traditional concepts with contemporary approaches—such as playing the guitar like a percussion instrument—and its interaction between sounds and digital visuals.

About the Film:

These two short films aim to advance documentary storytelling techniques by utilising moving images and on-screen text rather than traditional verbal narration. This approach allows audiences from diverse linguistic backgrounds to connect with the films through visual pacing, text, gesture, spatial elements, and live music. The films are conceived as a parallel two-part narrative—or a diptych—where each piece stands independently yet gains deeper resonance when presented together.

The first film, “My Dad and Our Dead”, portrays the daily lives of a Myanmar family (father, mother, and child) and their colleagues living at a construction site. It explores the irony of a situation in which these individuals build permanent spaces for others, while their own homes remain merely temporary dwellings.

The second film, “Exper Exist Expire”, is a distillation of the documentary project “The Experimentive,” a work that received screenwriting funding from the Thailand Creative and Cultural Agency (THACCA). It reconfigures footage of performances, behind-the-scenes preparation, locations, venues, equipment, artists, and people to explore how the experimental music community forms, is remembered, and endures.