2007, 5 MINS, UK/THAILAND

Dir: Rupert James
Scr: Rupert James and Puttisak Seanvisate
Prod: The Human Eye Corporation

Although military coups usually mean violence and vice, curfews and the curtailing of freedom, that was far from the case during the 2006 coup d’etat in Thailand – but that didn’t mean the lives of many weren’t
changed dramatically.

Who’s Shooting Who?, a split-screen docudrama, charts two opposing responses to the 2006 bloodless putsch side by side – the zealous, pro-military, royalist conservatism of much of the nation (expressed visibly in alms-like donations to soldiers on a vast scale) and the greed-ridden, self-indulgent, teenage apathy of new Asian consumerism – while begging the question of how much legitimacy the stance of the former has actually lent to the behaviour of the latter.

Screened at:

D22, Bejing, China (March 2007)
Rotoreliefs, London, UK (June 2007)
Biennale of Sydney, Australia (June 2008)