Set during the holy month of Ramadan, the film follows a young woman who, each evening, feels an inexplicable pull drawing her into the rubber fields behind her village. During the day, her sleep is disturbed by nightmares of someone entering her room and touching her body.
Samak Kosem is an artist and anthropological researcher based in Chiang Mai. He investigates transnational frameworks of sexuality that circulate and connect to sexual discourse, practice, and subjectivities. His project of Nonhuman Ethnography (2017-ongoing) in the deep south of Thailand considers how the body, desire and queerness interface with ambiguous Islamic homosociality through everyday practices.
