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My cinema-related curatorial practice (film programming)
focuses on community-based programs regarding (mostly) short
and documentary films, archives in relation to queer/migrant experiences 


CURATORIALS

Cinema-related


- Annual

    Xposed Queer Film Festival Berlin 2022 / 23 / 24
    Short Film Festival Hamburg 2022 / 23 / 24

    Celestial Festival Berlin 2022 / 23






    Ladyboys United


Short films program on “ladyboy” ie. Southeast Asian queer terminologies (Kathoey, Bakla, etc.)
June 2024 / Haus der Kulturen der Welt Berlin - part of program “O Quilombismo!”

(HKW website)


(It’s all because of a Kathoey, Thailand’s first LGBT film from silent period
- 1953, Courtesy of Thai Film Archive)




    unthaitled x KAUM Film+++festival 2023 “Wandering Salon”



Film screenings, discussions, workshops, expanded cinema perfomances, citywalks
(co-curated with Phuong Phan, Hai Nam Nguyen, Lisabona Rahman, Gugi Gumilang, Rosalia Namsai Engchuan)
May 3-13, July 2-9, October 3-13 2023 / Sinema Transtopia, Uferstudio, Flat Family, Cafe Karanfil, Vierte Welt Berlin

Text by MISSY MAGAZINE (DE) ein revolutionärer mobiler Salon: unthaitled x KAUM Wandering Salon 2023




   

    Cinema of commoning 2022


International conferences, discussions and film screenings
on cinema spaces as site of commonness and alternative model for better future /
(curated by Sinema Transtopia: Can Sungu and Malve Lippmann)

Feb - 24-26 June 2022

(bi’bak website) (Cinema of commoning website)



    Common Cold: un.thai.tled Film Festival 2021


Film screenings and discussions on Thai common histories during Cold War /
(co-curated with Rosalia Namsai Engchuan)
November-December 2021

(bi’bak website)



    Imagining Queer Bandung


Film scrreenings, Filmmaking and Podcasting Workshop for queer BIPoCs -
for the anticolonial queer alliance from the Global South /
(co-curated with Popo Fan and Ragil Huda)

June-August 2021

(bi’bak website) / (queer asia website) / (facebook)
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Touring screenings at :
- Queer Film Festival Munich, October 2021
- Hamburg International Queer Film Festival, October 2021 (previously “Lesbische- Schwule Filmtage Hamburg”)
- Sinema Retakes & Revisions Series at Sinema Transtopia, December 2021
- BIPOC Sunrise Dortmund Special Screening at Endstation Kino Bochum, December 2021


    un.thai.tled Film Festival 2020


Film screenings and discussions on Thai cinema, geopolitics and identities
& Film-workshop for BPoCs with Pimpaka Towira and un.thai.tled Collective
(co-curated with Rosalia Namsai Engchuan)
September-October 2020

(bi’bak website)

︎ Thai Film Screenings Berlin 2019 at Moviemento
︎Thai Evening in Berlin 2019 at Schalet
Exhibition breaking-through of un.thai.tled collective (August 2019)


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utamachote
ษาณฑ์ อุตมโชติ
“Because I am human”



cultural producer/
film director /
curator

- based in berlin

Sarnt Utamachote © 2024

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