For the CityOneMinutes project of the Sandberg Institute, together with Frank Morssinkhof and Kees de Groot, I created a city portrait of Bangkok, about the Las Vegas-style neons in the prostitute go-go bars nightlife.
The censored version of the film can be seen here (made for HollandDoc and WorldExpo Shanghai 2011, click on CITIES-BANGKOK). Or see the uncensored version here (as long as it’s not removed, maybe disable your age filter):
One Minute of every hour of the day. Total: 24 minutes.
To prevent girls keeping a safe distance and to be able to film in the clubs, I dressed up as a man, which can be seen here.
This CityOneMinutes video / video co-curated best of PLANETART OneMinutes was shown at: Academisch Medisch Centrum /Amsterdam Museum / Centraal Museum, Utrecht / Cultuurwerf/Buro Beeldende Kunst, Vlissingen / De Fundatie, Zwolle / Groninger Museum / Het Bonnefantenmuseum / het Haarlem College / ING / Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort / Marres – centre for contemporary culture, Maastricht / MOTI, Breda / Museum de Pont, Tilburg / Museum het Valkhof / Museum Jan Cunen, Oss / Museum van Bommel van Dam, Venlo / Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem / P.ART / Schunck*, Heerlen / Stadsschouwburg Utrecht / Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam / Stedelijk Museum Schiedam / Stedelijk Museum ‘s Hertogenbosch / TwentseWelle, Enschede / VPRO NPO DOC.
International Film Festival Moscow /
International Chinese European Art Centre, Xiamen / deBuren, Brussel /
East China Normal University, Shanghai / Townhouse gallery, Cairo / Fundación la Caixa, Barcelona / Xiamen University, dep. Of Art Design.
(video available on request)