Nanut Thanapornrapee

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The film opens in a shadowy museum, where dim, mysterious light reveals a collection chronicling the rich and complex history of elephants in Thailand. A film crew arrives to shoot an interview with an elephant that, through magical means, can speak. The elephant begins recounting the collective memories of its kind, spanning from the time before the birth of Buddha to the Elephant of Bastille, the 19th-century war between France and Prussia, and the night before Thailand’s revolution in 1932. But as the stories unfold, the weight of these memories overwhelms the elephant, leaving it visibly distressed. Hoping to provide comfort, the crew softly sings an elephant song, เพลงช้าง Thai traditional song, the melody calms the elephant, lulling it into a peaceful sleep.

Nanut Thanapornrapee

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Nanut Thanapornrapee (b. 1995, Thailand) lives and works in Bangkok. His transdisciplinary practice spans filmmaking, installation, DJing, VJing, and video game design. He has directed several notable works, including *King of the Cyborg Elephant* (2025), a short film screened at the Centre Pompidou Málaga in Spain; *Saros 143 Club* (2024), a short film premiered at the Busan International Short Film Festival; and *This History is Auto-Generated* (2022), a collection of video installations and short films presented at the 18th Taipei Digital Arts Festival in 2023.

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