Chanthila Phaophanit is a London-based artist and filmmaker, working across moving image, sound and installation. Her work is often drawn to forms of haunting and return and acts as a way to archive and preserve narratives that risk fading from consciousness. Through landscape, oral histories and acts of remembrance, her work reflects on the traces people leave behind and the ways places come to hold memory. Through lapses in memory and gaps in language, her practice explores how oral histories persist and transform over time and how they slip beyond official histories.
She graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2018 and went on to attend Radical Film School (2020) and Other Cinema Film School (2024). Her work has been screened at venues including Tate Britain, Rich Mix, Metroland Cultures, and Brixton Community Cinema.