The Ambassadors
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Directed by Anocha Suwichakornpong | 9 mins | 2018
Dotted with striking statues of prehistoric creatures, a popular tourist destination in Thailand provides the setting for a gently surreal meeting of Thai and British history, and of two of contemporary experimental cinema’s key figures: Suwichakornpong’s first collaboration with Ben Rivers was occasioned by the first-ever Thai Biennale, in 2018, and would become the seed of their doc-fiction hybrid feature "Krabi, 2562" (2019).
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