Note: An edited version of David Teh's curatorial essay for ‘The More Things Change...’, the 5th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival, with background on the political flux since the coup d’etat in 2006. Teh outlines two key themes that emerged in BEFF 5’s Thai programmes. The first concerns the cycles – ‘historical, biological & psycho-social’ – that finds expression in the country’s repetitive political narrative. The second concerns the poetics of reproduction in Thailand, a historical, economic and spiritual complex that connects everyday life and folk culture with sovereign and national symbolism. The article seeks to establish a context in which non-mainstream Thai visual culture might be better understood. He also offers some reflections on the relationship between film and contemporary art in Thailand.