Trip After

In the 1960s, the United States Information Service (USIS) mobile film units traveled around the northeast region of Thailand showing their self-produced propaganda films to rural audiences as a part of a psychological operation. THE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT WORKER (1958), one of their most well-received works, was also filmed in a province in that same region.
TRIP AFTER is a 2022 travel vlog inspired by the field trip reports of those USIS mobile film units. The film revisits the same locations where the original screenings and filming took place, whether to trace, articulate, or fabricate the impression of the past events.

Production Tuntita Nititsopon. Production company Khrueamas Films (Bangkok, Thailand). Director Ukrit Sa-nguanhai. Screenplay Ukrit Sa-nguanhai. Cinematography Ukrit Sa-nguanhai. Editing Ukrit Sa-nguanhai. With Kedkaew Kumarasit (Narrator), Suriya Saiwaew (Narrator), Thanaphon Thepthong (Narrator), Fasai Wongbun (Narrator), Samran Somboon (Narrator).

Ukrit Sa-nguanhai is a Thai moving image artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Bangkok and Chiang Mai. His works have been shown in international film festivals and exhibitions, including Sharjah Biennial and Locarno Film Festival. He is interested in amateur film aesthetics, rural/marginal film history, itinerant cinema, and collaborative work with local people. Currently, Sa-nguanhai is developing his first feature THE ITINERANT.

Films: 2012: Ghosts in the Classroom (3 min.), Celestial Space (Pimean Akas) (27 min.). 2013: Melancholy of a Video (video installation). 2014: Kingdom Fungi (video installation). 2019: Levitating Exhibition (20 min.), Enduring Body (Râang ton taan) (17 min.). 2022: Trip After.