Making Shadows Speak investigates how traces of historical violence, displacement, and geopolitical restructuring remain active in contemporary Southeast Asian landscapes. Filmed in sites marked by former colonial control, abandoned infrastructures, and shifting borders, the work looks at how political histories continue to shape land, memory, and movement long after their events are officially concluded.

The video centers on the act of witnessing. A nonhuman presence appears throughout the work—not as a metaphor, but as an autonomous observer whose perceptual field diverges from human ways of sensing. This presence introduces a parallel form of attention, one that responds to shifts in light, space, pressure, and atmosphere that often fall outside human narrative structures.

By placing human and nonhuman modes of perception side by side, Making Shadows Speak examines how suppressed histories surface through environments rather than through official archives. The work asks how landscapes remember, how silence operates as evidence, and how different forms of life register political disturbance in ways that extend beyond documentation or speech.