Owen Oppenheimer

In reframing and re-editing existing ethnographic films, Tan exposes their anthropological underpinnings and questions the conventions of filmmaking. What is the relationship between the observer and the observed? How can one ever know another? The voice-over, a fictional dialogue taken from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, may offer an answer. The explorer Marco Polo and Emperor Kublai Khan are speaking about travel and looking back on the past, when Polo observes, “The traveler recognises the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.”

Behind a public profile of brand endorsements and elite Bangkok social circles, Thailand’s undefeated Muay Thai champion Yod is consumed by guilt over a brutal past match that left his childhood best friend Krit with irreversible brain damage. As Krit now faces death, Yod begins to spiral.

Two friends brainstorm the worst possible sentence to tweet from one of their famous husband's accounts as revenge for cheating. It's an assassination attempt done with words rather than bullets. But things don’t quite go as expected.

Natasha Demkina is the girl with X-ray eyes. Her claim, to be able to see unaided, directly inside of bodies.

Two amateur detectives in an Oxfordshire village discover dying fish in their river. When they contact the water company for answers, the company's odd, evasive response prompts them to launch an investigation that continues today.