Introduction

Thaweechok Phasom is a Thai filmmaker of Thai and Tai Yai descent. His practice centers on memory, displacement, belief and marginalised lives, primarily exploring these concepts through experimental cinema and documentary, working with fragmented images, oral histories and altered cinematic forms.

Selected Screenings; Spirits of the Black Leaves (short film), 2024, International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), Rotterdam, Netherlands — international premiere; Spirits of the Black Leaves (short film), 2024, 35th Singapore International Film Festival, Singapore — winner, Best Southeast Asian Short Film; Ancestral Void (feature documentary, in development), Ji.hlava IDFF's New Visions Forum, Jihlava, Czech Republic.

He is currently developing the short Anastomose. Based in Chanthaburi, he founded bliss project, a micro-cinema bringing independent and experimental cinema to his hometown.

Thaweechok currently lives and works in Chanthaburi.