2024-ongoing, work in progress film, in collaboration with Panida Te Petchara.
In a hotel in Rotterdam, two workersβββone from Thailand, the other from Spainβββclean rooms and wash dishes for minimum wage. With phones and digital cameras, they begin documenting their world: a forgotten pant, a conversation with a boss, the arrival of a cruise ship. Blending observational footage with speculative narration, Ik Wou Dat Het Afwas is a film project that aims to offer an intimate and ironic reflection on invisible labor, tourism, and the value of time. What does it mean to serve luxury? Who gets to travel, and who gets left behind to clean up? As a feature film project, it combines autoethnographic documentary and fiction to analyze the precariousness, capitalist violence, racism and sexism of our society in crisis.
Ik Wou Dat Het Afwas has received the CBK I&V grant (2026) and the Mondriaan Voucher Development grant (2026). It has been presented at WIP sessions in Filmhuis Cavia in Amsterdam (NL) and as part of Rang Khon Ngan (See the Workers) exhibition at Arai Arai, Bangkok (TH).
