Braty

When you arrive on the fifth floor of the Garments, you are met by a huge empty space where two rows of old cinema seats are waiting for you. There is no screen, no cinema, at least not yet. You have reached Braty’s lair.

Formed in 2024, Braty is a multidisciplinary collective made up of Thankzie (Jittarin Wuthiphan), Rasita Lertvalaikul, Ramil Sukkree and Film Nutthawadee. It wasn’t my first time in the old Thonburi building; by then, many artists had set up studios there. For Braty, that was part of the attraction. At the time of the shoot, they had been on the fifth floor for less than a year, drawn to a building that wasn’t originally intended as an art space but had gradually become one through the artists, workers and communities inhabiting it.

Earlier in 2026, I saw Braty perform at Bangkok Kunsthalle in cluB pluto, a project initiated by filmmaker Parinda Mai. Starting from her readings of their birth charts, they turned astrology into a collective performance, mixing the mystical with the cold language of the corporate world.

Sitting in their meeting room, I wondered about the name. They didn’t seem that “bratty” to me. It came from a Ukrainian friend who once called them “so bratty.” They thought it was an insult until she explained that brat means brother in Ukrainian. They liked the idea of being siblings, and the name stayed.

The comparison fits. Thankzie and Ramil had worked together since university, Thankzie later met Rasita online, and by 2024 the three were out of film school, questioning how personal their work could remain within commercial practice. Film joined later and helped turn their ideas into something more concrete. Their roles are loose: Rasita often curates, Film manages projects, while Ramil and Thankzie work mainly as artists. Responsibilities shift, but everyone finds a place in the process and they still enjoy making things together.

Seated in those old cinema seats, the four looked slightly odd, yet completely at home. Thankzie sees Braty as an alter ego, Ramil as a space for collective experimentation, Rasita as something brave and playful, and Film, simply, as “cool”. Perhaps Braty is all of those things at once.