Synopsis
Longing for a life beyond her hometown in the Thai province of Buriram, Ploy moves to various Southeast Asian cities in search of work. She ends up in Singapore as a sex worker at an illegal, makeshift brothel operating under the cover of a jungle’s leafy darkness that is eventually turned into a public park.
Ploy’s story is interwoven with those of other migrant workers, backgrounded by scenes of labour, prohibition and surveillance. Nature, a silent witness to all this, is not spared from the violence of man’s impulse to control. Employing a variety of materials such as photographs and paintings, Ploy joins a wave of recent films that centres these voices from the margins.
Details
Director:
Prapat Jiwarangsan
Country:
Singapore, Thailand
Duration:
51 Mins
Rating:
NC16 (Some Mature Content)
Year:
2020
Language(s):
Thai, English
Showtimes
Cinema
02 Dec 2020, Wednesday, 6:30pm
Oldham Theatre
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Film Credits
Director
Prapat Jiwarangsan is a visual artist and film director from Thailand. His recent documentaries—The Asylum (2015), The Wandering Ghosts (2017) and Destination Nowhere (2018)—focus on the stories of migrant workers in Asia, and have been screened at film festivals in Rotterdam and Singapore.
Cast & Crew
Producer:
Graiwoot Chulphongsathorn