3 short films in 39th International Film Festival Rotterdam

"Orchestra" and "Man and Gravity" two new short films by Jakrawal Nilthamrong will be shown in International Film Festival Rotterdam and Oberhausen in next coming year.

Orchestra HD/Stereo/22 mins supported by Jim Thomson

Comment from the festival:
And artists undertakes an attempt to make a documentary. He looks with admiration at workers in a silk factory but doesn't forget to create art.

With a sensitive eye for detail, the film maker made a small group portrait of five employees in a silk factory in his country. He gazed in fascination at the production process, but also how people live and dream. He sees the factory as an orchestra in which the machines and the employees are the instruments. A visual symphony.

see more info: go to official website

Man and Gravity HD/Stereo/10 mins supported by rijksakademie

Comment from the festival:
A man with a colourful tricycle tries to raise an impossible freight in inaccessible surroundings. Gravity, but also karma.

Just like gravity, karma works everywhere, even though you don't see it. You only see the result. All over Asia you see people with impossible loads on their bicycles, scooters or small vehicles. Here a man tries to lift a truly impossible freight in an impossible and hostile environment. The unusual landscape emphasises the metaphorical quality of his toils. Serious as evidence and yet unmistakably funny.
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"My image observes your image, If it is possible to observe it" by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng
HD/Stereo/6 mins supported by Irish Museum of Modern Art

Comment from the festival:
A Thai film maker in Ireland. He can't take his eyes off it. Like a cloud, he floats past the buildings. A cloud passes literally. An observation cloud.

Phuttiphong Aroonpheng made this work during an artist-in-residence programme at the Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin, Ireland. The Thai film maker gazed in amazement at his new northern home base. He floated like a cloud through his temporary city, literally and metaphorically.

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Thai Short Film Award

Our Monument won The Vichitmatra Award in 12th Thai Short Film Festival.
Festival info: go to festival's official's website

Our Monument HD/Color/Stereo/10 mins

24th Interfilm Berlin

The Most Beautiful Man in the World will be screened in 24th Interfilm Berlin on 5th, 7th and 8th November 2008 at Hackesche Hofe Filmtheater Kino 5 and Babylon Berlin.

Festival Info: go to Festival's official website

The Most Beautiful man in the World or Rak Por Paeng in Thai original title is 1 of 9 short films in The Short Film Project in Commemoration of the Celebration on the Auspicious Occasion of His Majesty the King's 80th Birthday Anniversary. The short film is funding supported by Office of Contemporary Art and Culture, Ministry of Culture Thailand.

The Most beautiful Man in the World 16mm/color/stereo/16.10 mins

A Southeast Asian film creators collection

A Southeast Asian Film Creators Collection

In support program of Focus on Asian, Fukuoka International Film Festival 2008

Curated by Nishitani Kaoru Advisor of Fukuoka International Film Festival

Program List

"We all know each other" (HD/57 minutes/Color/Stereo/2007) by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng

"Shadow Animation" (20 minutes/B&W/2008) by Don Salubayba

Venue: Ajibi Hall, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka Japan

On 30 September 2008 at 10:00 and 15:00

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum address:

7 & 8th floor, Riverain Center Building
3-1 Shimokawabata-machi, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka City

Tel: 092 263 1100

We all know each other HD/color/ Stereo/57 mins

Invisible Hands

INVISIBLE HANDS: WEAVING FOLK ART INTO SILK -
THE PEOPLE BEHIND JIM THOMPSON

Jim Thompson unveils a world-class success behind the scenes
via a media-based exhibition

There are two video works by Jakrawal Nilthamrong

- "Man on the Moon" DV/7 minutes

- "Orchestra" DV/ 30 minutes

August 25 – November 16, 2008
At the Jim Thompson Art Center

Go to Official Website 

For more information please contact:
Khun Sirirat Rattanakajornsakul – The Thai Silk Company Limited
(Jim Thompson)
Tel: +66 (0) 2762 2562

Sync! Mit Out Sound

THIRD CLASS CITIZEN presents

: Mit Out Sound Films Showcase

Date: 19 September 2008

Time: 19.00

Venue: Bioscope Theater

HOW TO GET HERE : MRT RATCHADAPISEK / EXIT 4 , TURN LEFT AND WALK ALONG THE ROAD TO SOI RATCHADAPISEK 22 

More information: http://thirdclasscitizen.exteen.com

12th Thai Short Film&Video Festival

Thai Short Film and Video Festival 

started in 1997 aiming to encourage to independent spirits to expose their hidden creativity. It is a local short film and video competition in conjunction with screening selected short films from several contras. Within a decade, the number of entries increases from 30 to more than 400, creating the dynamic atmosphere for the microscopic Thai film culture. One of its unique activities is ‘Marathon Screening’ that screens all of the entries applied for the competition. Gertjan Zuilhof, the programmer of International Film Festival of Rotterdam, finds this activity democratic and open-minded spirit of the festival.

Mit Out Sound Films in 12th Thai Short Film Festival.

Two short films from Mit Out Sound Films will be screened in the competition program, The R.D. Pestonji Award.

- "Our Monument" 10 mins/HD/Color/2008 

    by  Phuttiphong Aroonpheng 

    14.oopm  Sat/30/8/2008 

- "Parallel Journey" 8 mins/DV/Color/2007

    by Jakrawal Nilthamrong

    14.oopm Sun/31/8/2008 

    at 5th FL Auditorium Bangkok Art and Culture Center.

    

Lifeboat #2551

Lifeboat #2551

Contemporary Art Media From: Phuttiphong Aroonpheng/Tin Tin Cooper/Sittsak Jiampojaman/Preeyachanok Ketsuwan/Momokomotion/Olarn Netsiri/Jakrawal Nilthamrong/Sakarin Kru-on/Wit Pimpakul/Sathit Satarasart/Pramot Sengson/Michael Shaowanasai/Suchada Sirithanawuddhi/Manit Sriwanichpoon/Sutthirat Supaparinya

Curated Michael Shaowanasai

Stuck together in a small vessel, Thai media artists must work together to stay afloat. At the same time they are also trying to out-live one another. While lost at sea, they are waving and screaming in order to get any kind of attention hoping to be rescued. Some of them are fortunate and have been ‘scooped up’ by a passing European liner. The rest of them can only watch and hold on to what they have – their talent, their pride and their hopes.” Michael Shaowanasai

Lifeboat #2551 is curated by one of Thailand’s key contemporary artists, Michael Shaowanasai. It brings together a cross generational mix of media artists from Thailand.

Venue: Gallery 4A / Asia Australia Arts Centre

Date: 14 June- 26July 2008

Tuesday to Saturday 11am to 6pm
Free Admission

181-187 Hay Street Sydney NSW 2000
www.4a.com.au

+612 9212 0380

Mit Out Sound Films Showcase

Program A/2008 

- Are you Rolling? (HD 15mins Color 2008)
  by Chartchai Chaiyont

- R Train (DV 9mins Color 2006)
  Our Monument (HD 10mins Color 2008)
  by Phuttiphong Aroonpheng

- Unified Field ( S16 film transferred to HD 4mins Color 2007)
  pARadoXisM (16mm film transferred to DV 4mins Color 2007)
  A Voyage of Foreteller, Pilot ‘07 (HD 8mins Color 2007)
  by Jakrawal Nilthamrong

Venue: MU MU Gallery (GTMA German Thai Media Association)
106/1 Soi Sribhumpen Sathon soi 1 Bangkok
Tel: 081-4474550

Date: 16 June 2008
Time: 18.00 (Opening party)
           19.30 (Screening)

Admission: Free