Imagina / Aswìn-pyàung-le-kyin ta-khù / Myanmar 2025
Are we watching a folk tale or listening to memories distorted by dreamlike logic, or did Jodorowsky perhaps decide to shoot some television propaganda? In his playful yet unsettling short film, Lin Htet Aung returns to his childhood, to the time he was exposed to the dictatorial regime’s brainwashing television broadcasts. These he now transforms into a fascinating, variegated form, in which politics encounters echoes of folkloric mires and, above all, lullabies that don’t help us get to sleep. A film that is fidgety and persistently absorbing in equal measure.
Viktor Palák
16 min / Color, DCP
Director Lin Htet Aung
/ Screenplay Lin Htet Aung
/ Dir. of Photography Lin Htet Aung
/ Music Wey Yinn Teo
/ Sound Wey Yinn Teo
/ Editor Lin Htet Aung
/ Art Director Lin Htet Aung
/ Producer Lin Htet Aung
/ Contact Lin Htet Aung
Lin Htet Aung (1998, Myanmar). Filmography (shorts): Estate (2020), Seeking Wombs for Rebirths (2021), Me and My Country Pornography (2022), Once Upon a Time There Was a Mom (2023), A Metamorphosis (2025, short).
Lin Htet Aung
E-mail: [email protected]
Lin Htet Aung
Film Director
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