A Brief History of Memory
2010 / sound / black & white / experimental documentary / 14 min
Synopsis
"A Brief History of Memory" is dedicated to the people who died during the political crisis in Thailand. The effect of the crisis is presented by a voice of a mother who lost her son in April 2009 and overlaid with moving images of the Nang-Lerng community where she and her family lived.
Director's Statement
The Nang-Lerng community survives through continuous changes, which cause many memorial imprints, one after another, memories that have been conveyed from one generation to another, memories that have been conveyed from those who went away before to those who are still here. Even though time has changes, these memories are still drifting and circling around.
As an outsider, being able to capture these memories and convey it as a film, is like capturing a brief history of memory and not just letting it slip as time is passing by. And also to mourn over those who passed away.
Within the filming process, there was an activity within Nang-Lerng community, which was to wash lice off of children's hair for their better personal health. Some of the pictures that were captured during the activity, such as the photographs of the dead lice, and the photographs of children, were used as parts of the documentary
Award
| 2011 | • | The First runner-up, Duke's Award (for documentary film): The 15th Thai Short Film & Video Festival, Thailand |
| 2012 | • | Alternative Visual Art Award, the 12th Seoul International NewMedia Festival (NeMaf 2012), Korea |
| 2010 | • | A part of the "E-Lerng" documentary film, screened on 9th October, 2010 at Chalearmthani Theatre, Nang-Lerng Market, Bangkok, Thailand |
| 2011 | • • • • • • • |
Political Collect, The Reading Room, Bangkok, Thailand Chiang Mai Now!: You Say You Want A Revolution Retrospective of Thai Independent Filmmakers - Chulayarnnon Siriphol's short films, 13th May 2011, Bangkok Art and Cultural Center (BACC), Bangkok, Thailand Human Frames: Fanaticism - Ten states of the soul - a hundred experimental films from Europe and Asia, 11th June until 24th July.2011, KIT - Kunst im Tunnel, Dusseldorf, Germany New Asian Currents, Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival 2011, Japan The 11th International Film Festival Hannover, Germany Festival Film Dokumenter 2011, SEA doc, Taman Budaya Yogyakarta, Indonesia Ghost Orb, 8 video works by Chulayarnnon Siriphol, 29 November - 25 December 2011, Eat Me Restaurant, Bangkok, Thailand |
| 2012 | • • • • • |
Was here-was now, The 6th Bangkok Experimental Film Festival (BEFF6), Bangkok, Thailand The 2nd Lifescapes Southeast Asian Film Festival, ChiangMai, Thailand CUT THRU: A View on 21st Century Thai Art, curated by Loredana Pazzini-Paracciani, 11 January - 7 February 2012, Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore Screen Below The Wind Festival, Ubud, Bali, Indonesia FAAM Art Talk 2012 -Media Art in Southeast Asia, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Japan |
| 2013 | • • • • |
Sharjah Biennial 11 Film Programme curated by
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates /
Instituto Inhotim, Belo Horizonte, Brazil 8th International Digital Moving Image Festival, Orality: Films from South East Asia, Cuchifritos gallery, New York SEA ArtsFest 2013, 47/49 Tanner Street, London, UK Aperture Festival 2013, Experiential Ethnographic Films Program, The University of Melbourne, Australia |
| 2014 | • • • • |
Spectral Reverberations Curated by Lauren Reid, Light & Wire gallery (online exhibition) A Brief History of Memory, Curated by Lauren Reid, the 4th Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, Moscow, Russia WILDTYPE MASTERCLASS 001 : FUCK ALLIGATOR A retrospective screening and talk with Chulayarnnon Siriphol, 27 September 2014, The Reading Room, Bangkok, Thailand SCINTILLATION OR DISAPPEARANCE 29 October 2014 – 31 January 2015, MMCA Seoul Theater, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea |
| 2015 | • • • • • |
Thai Film Night!, 14 March 2015, Eikyu Beppu Theater, Beppu, Japan Reuse, Retell, 29 May 2015, curated and presented by Dr. May Adadol Ingawanij, University of Westminster, London 2nd Cinemalibre film club screening, 30 May 2015, UP Cine Adarna - Videotheque, UP DILIMAN, QUEZON CITY, Philippines Asian Film & Video Art Forum, Place, Sentiment and Memory, 9 September – 31 October 2015, MMCA Seoul Theater, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea The Wrong (again) New Digital Art Biennale, Dystrophies, Arebyte Gallery, United Kingdom |
| 2016 | • • |
Documentary Night, 30 January 2016, Media Arts and Design, Chiang Mai University, Chiang Mai, Thailand This Moment: Thailand, 23 November 2016 - 26 February 2017, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, Korea |
| 2017 | • • |
13th International Conference on Thai Studies, A Thai Society through a Cinematic Perspective, A short film program curated by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 15-18 July 2017, Chiang Mai Unruly Shadows: Artist Films and Videos on Challenging Spheres, Histories Turning Ghosts, 19 November 2017, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore (NTU CCA), Gillman Barracks, Singapore |
| 2018 | • • • |
Historie(s) du Thai Cinema, 18-19 August 2018, DAM'N CINECLUB, Bangkok, Thailand DIY Cinema:Thai History?, 1 December 2018, Cinema Oasis, Bangkok, Thailand DAM’N 006: GOLDEN BOY WITH HIS TRIANGLE, 22 December 2018, DAM'N CINECLUB, Bangkok, Thailand |
| 2019 | • • |
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Selects, a part of Rirkrit Tiravanija: (who’s afraid
of red, yellow, and green), 22 June-24 July 2019, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
New Currents: by Thai Filmmakers presented by Anocha Suwichakornpong, 16 April 2019, Design and Media Center, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston |
SHORT FILM / MOVING IMAGE WORK
FEATURE FILM
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