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A) DJ Dok-Rak, a disc jockey for a radio station in Chiang Mai, lost her job after the National Peace and Order Maintaining Council shut down every single Red Shirt radio stations after the 2014 coup d`etat. Since then, her life has turned upside down. She becomes a taxi driver instead, yet still lulls the passengers with her own live session. B) Karen boy has to secrete himself working in a village in Chiang Mai due to his lack of identification document. He needs to be more cautious after the coup because he is afraid of being send back to Myanmar. C) The filmmaker invites Dok-Rak and the boy to a pond, a shelter where they can do things that they cannot do in real life. They seem like nonpermanent refugees who are looking forward to liberation and far-fetched freedom.

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, Baden and Hong Kong, while his videos have screened at international film events such as Canada’s Image Festival, Experimenta India and Singapore International Film Festival. From 2010 to 2011, Prapat’s work appeared at London’s Siobhan Davies Studios and Hockney Gallery. The following year, he held a solo show I Will Never Smile Again at Bangkok’s WTF Gallery, as well as participated in Politics of Me, a group exhibition at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre. In 2013, his work appeared at two international exhibitions: first as part of Subjective Truth at Hong Kong’s 10 Chancery Lane Gallery, and later as part of Concept Context Contestation: Art and the Collective in Southeast Asia at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre. In 2014, he had a solo exhibition at Kunstverein Baden, Austria. Currently, he is an artist-in-residence at Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, South Korea.