Miss Suwanna of Siam

Two opening dates, two copies, and still no film to put on the screen. I keep returning to that strange mismatch: we can follow the prints into cinemas, but not the people into a single scene. What I most want to see is what these records cannot show—a glance held too long, an awkward pause, somebody moving out of another person’s way. A hundred years of importance can settle into a title. A few seconds of ordinary life would make it a film again.

— Momo