CURATORIALS

Cinema-related


- Annual

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

    Celestial Festival Berlin 2022 / 23


- Project based


    unthaitled x KAUM Film+++festival 2023
    Wandering Salon


Film screenings, discussions, workshops, expanded cinema perfomances, citywalks /
May 3-13, July 2-9, October 3-13 2023

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






    Cinema of commoning


International conferences, discussions and film screenings on cinema spaces as site of commonness, social and political movement, and alternative model for better future / 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 and Southeast Asian common histories during Cold War / November-December 2021

(bi’bak website)

at Sinema Transtopia, 2021 / funded by Stiftung Nord-Süd-Brücke,
Projektfonds Urbane Praxisand Goethe Institut Thailand




    Imagining Queer Bandung


Film scrreenings, Filmmaking and Podcasting Workshop for queer BIPoCs - for the anticolonial queer alliance from the Global South / June-August 2021)

(bi’bak website) / (queer asia website) / (facebook)

at Sinema Transtopia, 2021 in collaboration between bi’bak and Queer Asia / funded by Soziokultur Fonds and Europa Solidarity Corps

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 / September-October 2020

(bi’bak website)
at Sinema Transtopia (project by bi’bak) 2020 / funded by Nord-Süd-Brücke Stiftung,
Berliner Projektfonds Kulturelle Bildung, Purin Pictures and Goethe-Institut Thailand


︎ Thai Film Screenings Berlin 2019 at Moviemento
︎Thai Evening in Berlin 2019 at Schalet
Exhibition breaking-through of un.thai.tled collective (August 2019)
supported by UCity Thailand, Thai Airways, Singha Beer, ExBerliner, I-Heart-Berlin


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CURATORIALS

Contemporary arts-related



    Where is my karaoke? Let’s sing along and sing away


Mixed media and archival material installationon Vietnamese, Laos and Cambodian music and histories in former East Germany (GDR)

Part of “Re-Connect: Art and Struggle in Brotherland” (curated by Sithara Weerathunga and Marcus Hurttig) /
Museum der bildenden Künste Leipzig / 17 May - September 2023 /

(Website)
 

    Where is my karaoke? Still, we sing


Exhibition and programme on Vietnamese, Laos and Cambodian world-making practices and exchanges in former East Germany (GDR) /

Art Space D21 Leipzig / 25 May - 2 October 2022

(D21 website)


   

Beyond the kitchen: Stories from the Thai Park / Archive of Thai migration in Germany


March-July 2020; ongoing research

(museum website)

at Bezirksmuseum Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf, 2020 / funded by Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa, Bezirksamt
Charlottenburg-Wilmersdorf and Goethe-Institut Thailand








utamachote
ษาณฑ์ อุตมโชติ
“Because I am human”



cultural producer/
film director /
curator

- based in berlin

Sarnt Utamachote © 2024



The Lamp

(12/11/2015)


         Lamp that burns
                         Worse; let itself badly burn
                             An object with purpose attached
                             When it lays its function wide



     Thanks to that after-effect
                  Meaning the beloved is dominated
                Against its will – for its greater will

 Forming thick, floating in the air
Beyond my attainment;
With eyes teary, until they crash
            It’s ecstatic drum-slates, to each jumps
     Miniscule testing evidence
          Damn hard-head it is;


                            Born out of red bright substance
                                   Dance of death closest, by the shore?


Or is it rather denier, who lies,
                    About coiling facts that shatter that fragile
Piece of commemoration?


So please don’t forget



                                   More importantly, the way the wind blows
                  Ground soaked in swept objects
          Your laying dare insistence
                     causes the hidden to be found
 In a way unsupposed
      To original of their own;




Thanks for long endurance
           For generations past and to come
We’re left to face - alone
The fire dies out
And it is no more