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Premiere Status
37 minutes | 2024 | Thailand | Documentary | 🔊 Thai | SU
Synopsis
Sinopsis
Focuses on the origins of the idea of film archiving in Thailand that is linked to the complex web of socio-political. Through exploring the body of work of Dome Sukvong, the founder of Thai Film Archive, including his essays, books, letters, memoirs, and reports.
Chaikitiporn brings back Sukvong’s archival materials to be re-reading by the voices of Thai Film Archive staff. Combined with the oldest moving images in Thailand from Topical Film Service of Royal State Railways, the national film production centre during the absolute monarchy era, which Sukvong discovered in 1981, and led to the labour for the dream of establishing a Film Archive in Thailand.
Schedule
Jadwal
Fri, 5 Dec 2025 | 18:45 | EMPIRE XXI | Premiere
Director's Biography
Biografi Sutradara
Chanasorn Chaikitiporn
Chanasorn Chaikitiporn is a filmmaker and moving image artist whose interest lies in the exploration and interrogation of socio-political histories of Thailand. His works examine questions on culture, political thought, identity, and personal historical memory through the lens of semi-coloniality. In combining fiction film and documentary film genres, he investigates archival, found footage, and declassified documents.
Credit
Kredit
| Production Company | We Wide Wave |
| Producer | Banvithit Wilawan |
| Director | Chanasorn Chaikitiporn |
| Scriptwriter | Dome Sukvong |
| Cinematographer | Songsit Kasiroek |
| Production Designer | – |
| Editor | Chanasorn Chaikitiporn |
| Main Cast | Dome Sukvong |
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| Contact | [email protected] |
