Wiwat Lertwiwatwongsa

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 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’