Using excerpts from Myanmar’s state propaganda television, Lin Htet Aung investigates the oppressive machinery of power, reconstructing in a personal way the uncanny experience of growing up under a dictatorship. Through repetitive, digitally distorted images of television broadcasts accompanied by a hypnotic lullaby, he creates an “anti-transmission” ‒ a sensory experience that conveys the alienation, pain, and resilience of the people of Burma. The film was awarded the Tiger Short Award at the International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Lin Htet Aung (b. 1998) is a filmmaker whose works have screened at New York Film Festival, Vancouver, Karlovy Vary, IFFR, and other festivals, winning the 2025 Tiger Short Award at IFFR. A Berlinale Talents, Locarno Filmmakers Academy, and Asian Film Academy alumnus, and Prince Claus Seed Awardee, he is developing his debut feature, Making A Sea.