Flow

A lone human figure watches as buffalo tail each other in a herd. Out of curiosity, he puts on a buffalo mask to blend in, but soon finds it hard to extricate himself. With the allegorical use of animated clay figurines, director Souliya Phoumivong critiques consumer society’s unthinking pursuit of material things. In Flow, those who choose to conform in the name of advancement are compared to cattle that blindly keep pace behind each other in a never-ending circle. It raises the question: What distinguishes man from beast?