Fireworks (Archives)

Two figures silently cross the frame in a nocturnal site filled with stone animals. Flashes of light radiate from the screen then fold back into the dense darkness, while an archival photograph shows a revolutionary whose last words prior to his execution were ‘dictatorship shall fall, democracy shall prevail’. This place, Weerasethakul says, is a manifestation of revolt. Free at heart, but forced to struggle, and to dream.