Produced with Financial Support: Hubert Bals Fund / International Film Festival Rotterdam
Asian Cinema Fund / Pusan International Film Festival
Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry Culture of Thailand/p>
Production Company: Pop Pictures Co., Ltd Red Snapper Co., Ltd
In a small farming town, a middle-aged man rides his motorcycle through the silent landscape. He is a ghost who has returned to “walk the footsteps” of his youth. His name is Wit and he died three days ago. Soon, the silence gives way to the sound of a young woman’s laughter. Her name is Koi and she is all of twenty years old. It is now the past and this memory recalls the days when Wit fell in love with his future wife. He has brought her home to meet his parents and though she is at first wary of rural life, she soon accepts that this will be her future with the man that she loves. Finally, the past dissipates and we are back in the present with Koi, now a middle-aged woman. With two young children and her husband gone, she must find the strength to continue on.
LOGLINE
If the earth itself may face demise My love will remain unwavering. If I am not reborn of this earth May I recognize our love unchanged
Director Statement
I wanted the film to be about this memory of my father and our family. The film will be separated into three parts tied together by the concept of “death”. The first part is inspired by the Thai belief that the spirit of the dead will return after three days to “walk the footsteps” of the place it cherished. The second part is the recreation of the story my mother always told me when she missed my father. It is about the time when they met and fell in love. The third part is about the daily life of our family in the days following my father’s death when we felt his spirit was still with us. In this film, the three parts will be connected by “darkness” as a metaphor for “the death of a loved one” that will stay with us forever.
Director Biography
Sivaroj Kongsakul graduated with a degree in communication arts from Suan Sunandha Rajabhat University.
He began his career as an assistant director for Penek Ratanaruang, Wisit Sasanatieng, and Aditya Assarat on many of their short films, television commercials, and music videos. He was also the cinematographer for Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s short Worldly Desires.
Since 2002, he has directed ten short films. His two latest films, Always and Silencio, were both invited to the Clermont-Ferrand Short Film Festival and won awards there as well as at other festivals around the world. Eternity will be his debut feature film.
Filmography:
2010 Eternity (feature)
2008 War is Over (short)
2008 Up and Down (short)
2007 Silencio (short)
2006 Always (short)
2005 Dinner (short)
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