Oat Montien

Amidst her best friend’s party overflowing with secrets and unspoken desires, Lisa realizes that her love with the seemingly perfect prince is not a fairy tale but a cruel act of ghosting. Navigating through all her timelines, she explores her endless possibilities of her destinies. Introducing in a new montage form, a collage of in-concluded narratives, The Kingdom of Fairies weaves fragments inspired by the fleeting aesthetics and unfinished narratives of TikTok and short-reel culture. The film drifts through the emotional urgency and spectacle of perfection that define our hyperconnected age, where love becomes simulation, heartbreak becomes performance, and identity becomes mimicry shaped by algorithmic desire. In a world numbed by excess, the longing to rediscover magic and the freedom to feel becomes a quiet act of resistance.

Shot entirely on Super8 camera, this film is a part of Montien’s ‘The Gay Asian Cowboy’ series. Inspired by his late father’s obsession with vintage Western movies, Montien travelled to the location where early classics in that genre were made, and shot his own queer version of the cowboy’s fantasy.