Rath Chun is a documentary filmmaker and visual artist with a background in architecture. He is Co-Founder/Content Creator/Creative Director at Aglaia Docufilms. He has collaborated with Studio 88 and its artists since 2025, continuing to engage with Chiang Mai’s local creative scene and the international arts community.
He holds a bachelor’s degree from Chulalongkorn University, received an MA at l’École Supérieure d’Architecture de Paris-Belleville, and earned an MA in Screen Documentary from Goldsmiths, University of London. Rath’s creative practice moves fluidly across photography, filmmaking, and outdoor painting. He is drawn to the understated beauty of the everyday, using image-making as a contemplative space where inner thought and outer world meet.
Rath’s graduation film Cookies, Tea & Spices (2019) won best documentary award from Canada Short film festival. He later co-founded Aglaiadocufilms in Paris, producing character based documentaries. Notably, Into the Forest (2022), which won 1st prize in Bordeaux shorts film festival and audience award at Bradoc film festival, Brazil.
Rath first showcased his works to the public in Chiang Mai. His photography works were selected as a part of a duo exhibition; Stillness in Plain Sight at Little Shelter hotel. A series of his short films was shown at a screening event; Journey through Space and Soul at Suan Anya and After the Passage: Voices from the Dispersed Self at Studio 88 where he also had a debut film screening of the ‘Diaspora’.
Diaspora Blues is a powerful exploration of the Laotian lost generation’s search for home. The documentary delves into themes of belonging, trans-generational memory, perseverance through adversity, and the enduring search for hope
During his time in Chiang Mai Rath collaborated with Radha Bhatnagar at Studio88 creating poetic video ballade; Nature’s Embrace in 2024. A short poetic ballade shown during a performance in collaboration with Radha Bhatnagar at Studio88 Doi Saket, Chiang Mai. How does one be intimate with earth? To pause, and open oneself to a state of vulnerability. Only then nature whispers and unveils her secrets.
Rath also created a short documentary ‘A tale of teak trees’ featured the story and why Sasiwimon Wongjarin, Studio 88’s Director felt connected to her birthplace and wishes to build a home that can share and give back to the community. This short film is screened at the StoryScapes Festival in October 2025 at Studio 88.
A tale of teak trees is a short documentary featured the story and why Sasiwimon Wongjarin, Studio 88’s Director felt connected to her birthplace and wishes to build a home that can share and give back to the community.
Director: Rath Chun
Creative Producer: Pattarine Fontaine
Production: Aglaia Docufilms
This short film is screened at Studio 88’s StoryScapes Festival in October 2025 at Studio 88 Artist Residency.
Rath is one of the founding members of DADF2025, a 3-day intensive documentary workshop held in Luang Prabang, Laos.
Currently, Rath is debuting his first feature-length documentary Diaspora Blues (2025). Rath co-founded Aglaia Docufilms together with Pattarine Fontaine.
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