Garett Weston Thomas-Sirijaroonchai is a filmmaker who strips away the artifice of travel cinema and instead delivers something far more vulnerable: a digital postcard from his own life. In ‘Zipping Across Another Pond‘, he doesn’t act as a director in the traditional sense, but as a curator of moments – small, flickering memories captured not for an audience, but for himself. The film’s strength lies in this intimacy. These are not commercial shots or promotional reels – they are personal clips, culled from his phone during a journey through Thailand and Taiwan in February 2024.

What Garett brings to the screen is not polish but pulse. His decision to retain the original 9×16 Instagram aspect ratio is bold, resisting cinematic norms in favor of a format that feels both current and confessional. There’s no no high-end equipment, no travel vlog affectations. Instead, Garett’s eye lingers on airport rituals, vibrant city corners, buzzing food courts, and passing strangers. His footage hums with the energy of someone who isn’t trying to prove anything – just someone taking it all in. This isn’t his professional work, and that’s precisely why it resonates. It feels lived-in, unpretentious, and authentic.

In creating ‘Zipping Across Another Pond’, Garett has positioned himself as a documentarian of the everyday, not through carefully constructed narratives, but through the textures of memory. The film doesn’t announce itself with dramatic arcs or sweeping commentary. It simply exists, like a travel journal left open on a table – inviting, unedited, and entirely his. Through this deeply personal project, he redefines what a filmmaker’s contribution can be: not always to direct or explain, but to witness, record, and share without apology.