BIOGRAPHY
Thaweechok Phasom is a Thai filmmaker of Thai and Tai Yai descent, born in Mae Sai, Chiang Rai, and raised in Chanthaburi. Working across experimental cinema and documentary, his films explore memory, displacement, belief and marginalised lives through fragmented images, oral histories and altered cinematic forms.His short Spirits of the Black Leaves premiered internationally at IFFR 2024 and won Best Southeast Asian Short Film at the 35th Singapore International Film Festival. He is currently developing the short Anastomose and the feature documentary Ancestral Void, presented at Ji.hlava IDFF’s New Visions Forum.
Now based in Chanthaburi, he founded bliss project, a micro-cinema bringing independent and experimental cinema to his hometown.
Thaweechok Phasom
Spirits of the Black Leaves
2023“
Feeling as if there is a void in her chest,
a woman embarks on a transformative journey with
phantasmagorical encounters and karmic connections.
”
Spirits of the Black Leaves
ดงรกชัฏ
(2023, 30:00 minutes,Thailand)
Finalist "Student Competition" 27th Thai Short Film & Video Festival (Thailand)
"Short & Mid-length" International Film Festival Rotterdam 2024 (Netherlands)
"International Competition" 21st Brive Film Festival 2024 (France)
"SOULS AND SPIRITS" 46th Moscow International Film Festival (Russia)
2024 — 32nd Bangkok Film Critics Awards (Thailand)
2024 — microWAVE FILM FESTival (Thailand)
WILDTYPE 2024 (Thailand)
Best Southeast Asian Short Film - 35th Singapore International Film Festival (Singapore)
2025 — 7th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (Thailand)
2024 — Stream on Nowness Asia
2026 — GRANDES CURTAS, ESAP — Oporto Arts Superior School (Portugal)
2026 — Borrowed Bodies, Cinemateca Portuguesa (Portugal)
2026 — Techno Dreams, Art Basel (Hong Kong)
2026 — Special Screening, Pattani Biennale (Thailand)
Articles:
ArtReview - Future Greats 2024
Landless
2022“
Fisherman Village adapted their life to run a homestay business
to survive in the capitalist disruption.
”
Landless
(2022, 18:40 minutes, Thailand)
2023 — 27th Thai Short Film & Video Festival (Thailand)
2024 — Short Documentary Competition, 32nd Bangkok Film Critics Awards (Thailand)
2026 — By The Stream, microWAVE FILM FESTival (Thailand)
Salai
2021“
This work implies the process of excretion in human’s body
and how the subject must excrete the excess negative feeling
which devours its life out of the body. By imitating the picture of excretion
into imaginary images and making of sound, this work offers the audience
to be in the state of excreting just like how the subject
experiences it or even doesn’t need to be the same.
”