Noohoy (Phatti Buntuwamit) a second year student surprised everyone in the Multimedia Design department by winning the best prize for a Short Film during the Movie Mania Awards 09 festival. This event organized by Chulalongkorn saw a high number of competitors (more than 126 students submitted their work). For this festival, Noohoy decided to submit his movie ‘Thai 2551’, an experimental documentary about the present political situation in Thailand. Noohoy’s main theme discussed Thailand’s demise due to unresolved political conflict and an unconcerned youth, too busy blinded by video games and consumerism.
Noohoy’s style used strong metaphors (a mosaic of Thai culture: Thai TV soaps, Thai politician, street dogs, Thai food, etc…) along with a sharp editing. His refusal of using voice-overs is also a strong characteristic of his work, following the moto: a picture is worth a thousand words. At the end, Noohoy uses strong images that might disturb the traditional Thai viewer. The purpose was not to shock but as D.W Griffith said: “To make your see”. What Noohoy hopes, like any of us in Thailand, that that we can be as one, again.
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