Itdhi Phanmanee

In Thai Buddhist cosmology, a kalpa is an immeasurable span of time — here imagined as 1.334 billion years, long enough for bodies, memories, and worlds to dissolve. Beginning in hell and expanding toward the edge of the universe, The Measured Everlasting is 1.334 Billion Years moves through Buddhist scripture, Thai gay pornographic print culture, forensic footage, personal memory, AI simulations, and political fable. At its center is the filmmaker’s fear of death: not simply as an ending, but as the collapse of identity, desire, and memory before everything returns to chaos.

Perth has broken off contact with Poon. What's left are images showing the two men's sex life. Perth was Poon's twenty years younger cinematographer.

Four men travel to a place of their memory. Two of them used to date ten years ago. The story is told through an interviewer and interviewees. Past stories are unearthed and overlap with the present, leading to a new story that seems like something totally different from what it started from. When they start playing Truth or Dare, secrets are revealed, yet it is uncertain whether they are real or merely lies. Their secrets, told amidst an atmosphere filled with destruction, death, and hope, are sarcastic, ridiculous, nonsensical, obsessed, and severely painful.

Science fiction about a future Thailand. Futuristic, experimental, homo-erotic and with elements of a political essay. With a richness of themes and impressions that wouldn't get past the censor in Thailand. The maker doesn't mince his words and isn't afraid to look reality in the eye.