Clubber Spotlight: Prinn Vajrabhaya
This week’s Dazed Club spotlight features Thai filmmaker Prinn Vajrabhaya, who recently created a short film AFTER HOURS – a trippy, enthralling portrait of London’s underground club scene. Watch the full short film below and find out more about Prinn's approach to filmmaking and the context that birthed this particular project.
"My name is Prinn Vajrabhaya and I am a Thai filmmaker-photographer based in south London and currently studying film & TV production at LSBU. AFTER HOURS is a short documentary film I directed about London’s rave scene, which invites the audience into an immersive world of a night out, from entering a club to meeting different people in the smoking area and getting lost in the music, narrated by club night creators."
"We don't want you to get fucked up, we want you to hear the music and get high from the music"
"AFTER HOURS captures the raw unfiltered atmosphere of a club night through messy handheld shots and euphoric colour grading. The soundtrack was created by Plushb4by and Aft3rsen and it brought the entire film together."
"One of my favourite scenes is the match cut in the introduction. The two shots were filmed in the same location but portray two worlds, made different by music and people enjoying themselves. I also enjoyed editing together the grid sequence to capture the essence of a club smoking area, where people from all over interact and share brief intimate moments. My hope is that this film provides a window into new forms of nightlife and encourages people to venture outside, listen to new music, try new things, and meet new people."
"I love story-telling and capturing authentic fleeting moments. Nostalgia and sonder are themes that I constantly find myself returning to. I am fascinated by the timeless and dreamlike qualities of Justine Kurland's and Petra Collins's photography, but I always look to my friends and their stories for inspiration. I always have a camera with me on a night out and I’ll be hungover the next morning going through all the footage. Candid photos always carry the most genuine moments and encourage you to notice and appreciate your everyday life."
"Most of the film was shot in Peckham Rye, which is where I’ve been spending a lot of my time – there are so many events and venues there worth checking out.
I’m working on another film and have some more exciting projects coming up."
Credits
Director & cinematographer: Prinn Vajrabhaya @lately.studios
Cameraman+sound design: Josie Critchley @ josie_8192
Editors: Prinn Vajrabhaya @lately.studios and Rohan Chandel
Typography: Stevie Akpa-Agwu @stevie.__.___
Music: Plushb4by @_rowenne and Aft3rsen
Follow @lately.studios to stay-to-date on Prinn’s activities and creations
Companies
Dazed Media
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