In 2008 Alex Kershaw traveled to Dansai, a small town in Loei Province of Northern Thailand on an Asialink grant. His project was made in collaboration with the local council and community during their annual Phi Ta Khon festival. Translated as 'ghosts follow people', Phi Ta Khon combines animist, Brahmin and Buddhist traditions. These articulate the bonds between the dead and the living, between sexual and agricultural fertility, between the community and their spirit-infested natural world.

Magic realist in approach, the video weaves harvest landscapes through documents of the festival and choreographed sequences where local farmers, food vendors and council employees are the actors. The Phi Ta Khon Project assembles Dansai through a series of displacements - orchestrated twists of context and materials, challenging their traditional roles and meanings.

GRANTPIRRIE exhibition (2009)
55th International Short film Festival Oberhausen, Germany
Exhibition Catalogue for GRANTIPRRIE show by David Teh (2009)
Interview with Amber McCulloch for Artworld - (2008)