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Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Gender

Male

Birthday

2003-03-19

Place of Birth

Trang Province, Thailand

Arin Bunchan

Biography

Arin Bunchan (Kua) is a filmmaker and artist born in 2003 in Trang Province, southern Thailand. He graduated from the School of Digital Media and Cinematic Arts at Bangkok University and is currently based in Pathum Thani, Thailand. He is interested in directing and editing works that explore the relationship between image and sound, identity, memory, the lasting impact of school violence, and the people and environments that shape such experiences. His work spans short films, documentaries, still photography, and experimental video art, combining personal experiences and memories with moving images and sound.

Known for

NO SHOW, NO FILE!

NO SHOW, NO FILE!

The catastrophic chaos of final-year film students desperately trying to finish their thesis project, only for the editor to lose the entire freaking file.

elsewhere, in my own

elsewhere, in my own

I see moving images woven through light, images of myself, my experiences, and moments from my life that I can still remember. Passing through dreams as a montage, these images are projected onto the body of an old man sleeping in solitude. A personal video piece derived from a fragment of the projected imagery in myself, elsewhere (2025), this work contemplates the self through this fragment...

3 AM

3 AM

Tomorrow, a man will direct his first feature film, but, that night, something happens.

myself, elsewhere

myself, elsewhere

Fragments of a contemplative essay film drifting between memory and dream. I see an old man haunted by an elusive voice, and a fading childhood quietly watching over him, in a space where prolonged sleep blurs the boundary of what is real. This is a story written from elsewhere a place where I listen, observe, and record his story, in an attempt to weave together images of family, and the quiet violence of growing up.

203 [A Documentary]

203 [A Documentary]

Kua lost "P'Tum," a film history teacher whom he loved and respected. He goes to the same classroom to recall the memories with P'Tum.

Endless

Endless

A man embarks on a journey to discover his identity, navigating through overlapping realms of surreal dreams.

Eulogy for a Dead Little Bird

Eulogy for a Dead Little Bird

The Writer and the Rememberer, together they wander through a mostly deserted buildings, searching for something they barely know they lack.

KUA

KUA

Kua, a film student who shares his experiences, reasons, and ways of thinking that shaped his love for cinema, as well as what cinema has brought into his life, told through the eyes of Aaron, his close friend and future cinematographer.

NEAR CRASH, STILL SCREENING!

NEAR CRASH, STILL SCREENING!

Documentary footage capturing a real event of a film student who has just begun hurriedly editing his thesis before the faculty’s screening deadline. Everything seems to be going well, until he realizes that… a crucial audio file for his work has gone missing.

Now Showing... Now Failing!

Now Showing... Now Failing!

A recording of a live performance by a group of film students at the final stage of their studies, in which they attempt to simulate the emotions experienced after screening their thesis film, reflecting on their final work submitted to the faculty.

A Conversation Beneath the Blanket

A Conversation Beneath the Blanket

In a quiet bedroom, beneath the blanket, two men begin to talk about their fear of a ghost that haunts them, leading to an unexpected space of conversation.

Fog Smoke or Dust

Fog Smoke or Dust

Two men are arguing whether what they see is fog or smoke.

A Message from Grandma.

A Message from Grandma.

Memory and Dreams is a hybrid documentary video essay and a personal record of memory, built around Kua’s recollection of a dream in which his grandmother appeared to him before she peacefully passed away. This record is woven from moving images and audio recordings made with his grandmother, both before and after her passing.

With Each Other

With Each Other

Our Conversation Through Video Call, Leading Her into the Realm of "Force"

“Mighty Martial Spectacles!”

“Mighty Martial Spectacles!”

It all starts with him having to pitch a product to a client. The product is glasses. This turns into an action film where martial arts warriors battle it out, with the glasses serving as a game-changing power in the fight.