Ramadan Nights

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  • Short Film

Ramadan Nights is a video work adapted from a short story written by the artist, narrating the trauma of a Melayu Muslim woman who encounters mysterious and inexplicable events.

A woman in a patterned headscarf embracing a tree in a flooded forest.

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Samak Kosem
Samak Kosem

Samak Kosem

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.