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When art intersects human rights
Life, Published on 28/11/2022
» Art and human rights violations do not always share the same tone. How can surviving abuse or living with restrictions also be beautiful and artistic? Violations come with misery, hopelessness, suffering and disagreement, while art brings beauty, meaning and creativity. Could brutal human rights violations be presented in artistic form? And what value does that bring to the situation?
French animation films come to House Samyan
Life, Patcharawalai Sanyanusin, Published on 22/09/2022
» A selection of 12 animation movies from France will be screened during the "Beyond Animation Film Festival", which kicks off today and runs until Oct 1. The venues are House Samyan of Samyan Mitrtown on Rama IV Road and Alliance Francaise Bangkok on Witthayu Road.
Questions for looking inward, outward and forward
Life, Amitha Amranand, Published on 24/12/2020
» At the end of each year, I usually end with a summary and pick of the best theatre productions of the year. However, 2020 has been such an unusual year for everyone, a year of cancelled performances, cancelled travel plans, and digital migration of festivals and panel discussions.
A call for justice
Life, Tatat Bunnag, Published on 09/10/2020
» What would it be like if you spent more than half your life isolated in a tiny cell in fear, not knowing what the future holds? That's exactly what happened to Iwao Hakamada, who every morning woke up thinking today could be his last. Hakamada, a new documentary, tells the heart-rending tale of a death row convict kept in solitary confinement for more than half-a-century before being granted a retrial in 2014.
Edge of tomorrow
Life, Published on 18/02/2020
» One of the hallmarks of a great city is a programme of cultural events that celebrates the creative arts. The high regard in which literature, music and poetry in general were held in Thailand's past is well known, even though the destruction of Ayutthaya in 1767 resulted in the loss of many classic Thai works which are now often known only by name, rather than by content.
Memories buried in soil
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 19/07/2019
» Memories and war, illusory borders and invisible scars: These themes are resonant in two documentary films shown late last month at the SAC Film Festival (hosted by the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre). In the Thai documentary Din Rai Dan (Soil Without Land), a Tai Yai man in Shan state talks about his life as a waiter in Bangkok and as a soldier in his ethnic army. In the Vietnamese film The Future Cries Beneath Our Soil, a group of men in a rural village bear the indelible wounds of the Vietnam War, still stinging after 40 years.
Edgy art in the Northeast
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 17/10/2018
» It began on Oct 6, but it's not too late to check out the edgy art festival Khonkaen Manifesto, taking place at various sites around the northeastern province until Oct 26.
New film is something to chew on
Life, Published on 02/10/2018
» Anthony Bourdain doesn't want you to waste your food.
Lens onto an intractable conflict
Life, Ariane Kupferman-Sutthavong, Published on 13/10/2017
» In 2005, inhabitants of Bil'in, a West Bank Palestinian village, discovered that the "separation fence" Israel was building would encroach on their agricultural land. Quickly, the village became the heart of a non-violent resistance movement, where Palestinian and international activists gathered and devised creative ways to fight the Israeli occupation.
Cinema paradiso no more
Life, Kong Rithdee, Published on 18/08/2017
» Everything changes. It changes in its own time.Cells die. Cells grow. Death and birth happen all the time.Like the mind, it's gone before you even know. Like when I project a movie, a reel of film rotating at high speed looks like a still image.