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Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit: The Clutter of Living - ArtReview

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How the Thai photographer and filmmaker sets about empowering audiences to tackle the weight of memory Within Thailand, the name Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit is synonymous with formally playful character-studies and humorously perceptive coming-of-age tales – films that blend trifling yet affecting plots with an everyday aesthetic. Equally, this Bangkok-born-and-bred screenwriter-director is renowned for populating his social-media-savvy shorts, feature films and commercials with subtly skewed fictional versions of the city’s mildly troubled adolescents and listless young adults. We have, for example, the alienated teacher’s pet of I Believe That Over 1 Million People Hate Maythawee (2010, a high-school-bound mockumentary short that serves as a piquant introduction to the dry, naturalistic slow-burn of his youth-orientated filmmaking). Moving swiftly forwards through his catalogue, we also find a workaholic freelance creative with an unexplained rash (the protagonist of Heart Attack, 201

How the Thai photographer and filmmaker sets about empowering audiences to tackle the weight of memory Within Thailand, the name Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit is synonymous with formally playful character-studies and humorously perceptive coming-of-age tales – films that blend trifling yet affecting plots with an everyday aesthetic. Equally, this Bangkok-born-and-bred screenwriter-director is renowned for populating his social-media-savvy shorts, feature films and commercials with subtly skewed fictional versions of the city’s mildly troubled adolescents and listless young adults. We have, for ex

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