Bangkok Kunsthalle’s Moving Image Program opens a thoughtful chapter with untitled tbilisi presenting Salt for Svanetia (1930). The Soviet silent film still feels startlingly alive, mixing documentary urgency with a political eye that refuses to soften its edges. Often referenced as a cornerstone of ethnographic cinema, the work observes daily life while quietly asking harder questions about labour, survival and control. This screening also sets the tone for a longer curatorial enquiry that treats salt as more than seasoning. It appears as medicine, protection, preservation and power, tied closely to bodies, borders and extraction. The research gradually leads toward an upcoming exhibition by Thai artist Wantanee Siripattananuntakul. After the film, untitled tbilisi host a conversation on collective practice, tracing how art can sit alongside activism and social justice without losing its complexity or tenderness.
January 16. Free. Bangkok Kunsthalle, 6pm