Nitipong Thinthupthai

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Exhibitions and Festivals
The 34th International Film Festival Rotterdam 2005, The Netherlands
The 3rd First Frame Festival 2005, Thailand
The 8th Thai Short Film and Video Festival 2004 Bangkok, Thailand

DUSK, DAWN / ย่ำค่ำ ย่ำเช้า (aka Yum Kum Yum Chao)

2004 / sonund / colour / documentary / 10 minutes

Cast & Crew
Camera by Nitiphong Thintupthai
Edited by Sompot Chidgasornpongse
Scenario by Sompot Chidgasornpongse, Nitiphong Thintupthai

Synopsis
The rain's falling. Darkness's afoot. In a monastery, a little monk is studying a scripture. It is his routine to contemplate Buddha's words in silence. Outside chaos and disorder lurk under the veil of this silent night. Flooding into the street are cars. People walk and talk and deal. The night is not sleeping as she seem to be. And comes morning. Like yesterday and the day before, the sun rise. The little monk goes about with an alms-bowl to beg for food like their seniors. The Buddha disciplines wander into the world of chaos. The monks walk the same street as the creature of the night . Under the moonlight, the two world are separated, but under the sunlight, they become one.

Director's Statement
The movie's shot documentary style, following a day and a night of a little monk. The story is hidden behind a subtlety of documentary. For one picture's worth thousand words, I, the director, tell the story solely with image. The image of Bangkok, where I lived, where a serene temple penetrates amid chaos of a city life.

OPPORTUNITIES / โอกาส (aka O Kas)

2005 / sound / color / documentary - Experimental / 10 minutes

Cast & Crew
Camera by Nitipong Thinthupthai
Script by Nitipong Thinthupthai, Akekarat Homlaor
Edited by Atthaphan Pourprasert, Akekarat Homlaor
Sound by Akekarat Homlaor

Synopsis
OPPORTUNITIES is a experimental-documentary film. The filmmaker captured the Thai national election event that just took place in Bangkok, focusing on the day that the Thai Prime Minister declared his new campaign. Against his high promises given to Thai people, the film shows how some of the low-class citizens actually lived. The irony is, those scenes happened at the same place just hours later, after the Prime Minister gave his last victorious speech.

Kasob

2006

Thaitakes3 lndependent film fistival NYC 2007

The 34th International Film Festival Rotterdam 2005, The Netherlands

Coming soon

2007-2008

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