Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa is a member of Film Club Thailand. He is also the founder of Wildtype, a loose group of Thai cinephiles that organises film screenings and seminars, and publishes film books in Thailand. Since 2008, Wiwat has curated and organised a series of Thai short film screenings called Filmvirs Wildtype, which focuses on overlooked Thai short films. Since 2018, he has collaborated with the Documentary Club to programme film events and organise documentary film festivals.
Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa
Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa participated in “Greatest” Short Films of All Time 2025, a first-ever poll of its kind as a collective love letter to the art of short-form moving image. yanco and Kurzfilm Festival Hamburg, in collaboration with Talking Shorts, invited filmmakers, curators, distributors, critics, and scholars worldwide to nominate 10 audiovisual works under sixty minutes that they personally consider the “greatest” of all time. This was Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa’s submission:
| Movie | Original Title | Director | Country | Year | Duration | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| End Վերջը | Artavazd Peleshian | Armenia | 1992 | 10’ | ||
| Chat écoutant de la musique Cat Listening to Music | Chris Marker | France | 1988 | 3’ | ||
| Thirdworld เกาะกายสิทธิ์ | Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Thailand | 1997 | 16’ | ||
| Nicht löschbares Feuer The Inextinguishable Fire | Harun Farocki | Germany | 1969 | 22’ | ||
| The House Is Black Khaneh siah ast | Forugh Farrokzhad | Iran | 1963 | 22’ | ||
| Self and Others 자아와 타자 | Makoto Sato | Japan | 2001 | 53’ | ||
| Food | Jan Švankmajer | Czech Republic | 1992 | 16’ | ||
| Living as One Should Chuyện tử tế | Trần Văn Thủy | Vietnam | 1987 | 43’ | ||
| Le Ballon rouge The Red Balloon | Albert Lamorisse | France | 1956 | 34’ | ||
| Outer Space | Peter Tscherkassky | Austria | 1999 | 11’ | ||