After Vote
Short Doc
Post-election period of the first election after the protest from 2020-2021.
Screening / Selection
Wildtype 2024, 5 Oct 2024, Doc club & Pub. & Microcinema throughout Thailand
Shortlist of Best short documentary, 32nd Bangkok Critics Assembly 2024, Thailand
Marathon Programme 4, Online Marathon Short Film 27, The 27th Thai Short Film and Video Festival 2023
Director's Note:
After Vote was filmed during Thailand's first general election following the 2020–2021 political protests.
Since I was a child, I have always witnessed the atmosphere after the polling stations close. There are people waiting to watch the vote counting, cheering for the results, monitoring the officials' work, and those tallying the scores to report them. This is an atmosphere I see during every election.
This particular election made me want to explore that atmosphere once again. I rode my motorcycle to several polling stations around closing time, before finding a specific area where I wanted to spend time. There, I saw the vote counting, the officials at work, the observers, and the transit area where each station brought their ballot boxes to aggregate the results.
This work is a recording of the moments during the vote counting and the state of politics—a time when people are waiting, while the political atmosphere continues to unfold through the people, the space, and the electoral process.
Short Doc24.32 mins / Thai / Eng sub / 2K / 24fps / 1.85∶1 / stereo / 2023
Director / Cinematographer / Editor : Suwaporn Worrasit
Producer : Labta
Bangkok governor election, Bangkok, 2022
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