Up to the Buffallo

Set in the transforming wetlands of Wiang Nong Lom in northern Thailand, Up to the Buffalo gathers different ways of knowing a disappearing landscape. Museum archives, local legends, children’s voices, the lived experience of buffalo herders, the movements of buffaloes and the rhythms of the wetlands coexist without settling into a single account of truth.

As dredging projects reshape the land and borderland economies redraw old relationships, spontaneous grasslands and shallow ponds disappear, cutting off the soft trails where buffalo once roamed and villagers once gathered. Rather than offering a single explanation of ecological loss, the film assembles fragments of human and non-human knowledge into a cinematic archive, inviting viewers to encounter not only a changing landscape, but also the limits of how we perceive, remember, and understand it.