About

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GRAPHY ANIMATION – THANUT RUJITANONT

Founded in 2021, Graphy Animation is the studio of artist Thanut Rujitanont, whose work explores the animation medium. Working independently of the commercial animation industry, Thanut has been actively promoting animation culture in Thailand and abroad.

EDUCATION 

Present-2024 PhD candidate at Griffith Film School, Brisbane Australia  
2023 Visiting scholar at Griffith Film School, Brisbane Australia 
2023-2021 European Joint Master in Animation 
Aalto University, Espoo, Finland 
LUCA School of Arts, Genk, Belgium 
Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal  
2016 Bachelor of Fine and Applied Art, Film and Digital Media, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand  

FILMOGRAPHIES   

2024 ผื่นกุหลาบ, PEUN-KU-LARP (Rose Rash), Duration: 10 min.
2023 จงสวัสดิ์, JONGSAWAT (The Announced Tragedy), Duration: 10 min.  
2016 ตื้น, TEUN (Shallow), Duration: 4 min.

ANIMATED WORKS

2023 There Are Not Mine, nor the Apple’s, Duration: 2 min.  
2023 Rock and Fish, Duration: 3 min.  
2022 Kinetography, Duration: 1 min.  
2022 A Magical Deer, Duration: 1 min.  
2022 Lights, Shadows and Reflections, Duration: 1 min.  
2022 RE NA NA, Duration: 2 min., directed with Natali Padilla and Renato Duque
2022 Homesite, Duration: 7 min., directed with David Habchy and Renato Duque
2021 A Migration of Experience, Duration: 1 min.  

SOLO EXHIBITIONS   

2021 Liberation Through Hearing: In-Processing Animation with Live Sound Performance, a live screening and performance, Bangkok, Thailand  
2021 Going Public, Bangkok, Thailand  

GROUP EXHIBITIONS   

2025 In Frames, We Wander, as part of Real-Time, Really? exhibition, Thai Film Archive, Thailand
2023 The Announced Tragedy, FilmEU-RIT Expanded memories, Luca School of Arts, Brussel, Belgium 
2023 Unlost Memory, V2 Gallery, Aalto University, Espoo, Finland  
2023 The Announced Tragedy, FilmEU-RIT Expanded memories, Lusófona University, Lisbon, Portugal
2022 Bumblebee Apocalypse: Calibration between Human Motion Capture and Bumblebees, Virtual Rituals, Oodi Central Library, Helsinki, Finland  
2022 Come & Play, Luca School of Arts, Genk, Belgium  
2020 Encounters, Project to Support Emerging Media Arts and Creators, Tokyo, Japan  

PUBLICATIONS

2024 Expanded Memories: Artistic Animation into Hybrid Analogue-Digital Animation, Animation Journal Volume 19, 2024.
2024 GoCritic! Feature: Korean prize-winners at Animafest Zagreb: Inju Park’s Reborn with You and Yumi Joung’s Circle
2024 GoCritic! Review: On Hold
2024 GoCritic! Review: To Be a Seed

RESIDENCE ARTIST 

2019 Project to Support Emerging Media Arts and Creators, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Atelier de l’Enclume, Brussel, Belgium  
2018 ANIME-ASEAN, Japan  
2018 Ciclic Animation Residency, Vendôme, France 
2018 Folimage Studio, Valence, France 
2017 Fontervraud Abbey Residency, Fontevrault-l’Abbaye, France 

GUEST SPEAKER AND LECTURER   

2023 FilmEU-RIT Expanded memories, Luca School of Arts, Brussel, Belgium 
2022 Experimental and Expanded Animation: Exploring Artistic Possibilities, SIGGRAPH
2021 Digital Art, Rangsit University, Thailand  
2021 Animation du Monde Alumni, Beyond Animation Festival, Thailand  
2018 New Chitose Airport International Animation Festival, Anime-Asean, Hokkaido, Japan
2018 Hiroshima International Animation Festival, Anime-Asean, Hiroshima, Japan 
2018 32nd Image Forum Festival, Anime-Asean, Tokyo, Japan  
2018 Experimental Film/Video, Lumen gallery, Anime-Asean, Kyoto, Japan 
2017 Film and Digital Media, King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand

WORKSHOPS AND PITCHINGS

2024 GoCritic! Participants at Animafest Zagreb 2024, Croatia
2024 Southeast Asia Annecy, MIFA Pitching Partners, France
2023 Annecy Animation Pitching Workshop, Thailand
2017 Animation du Monde at Annecy Festival, MIFA Pitch, France
2016 Annecy Animation Pitching Workshop, Thailand

CURATORIAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL RESPONSIBILITIES   

2025 Programming director, 1st Siam International Animation Festival (previous title: Franco-Thai Animation Film Festival, Thailand
2024 Co-organiser for The Flavours of Thai Independent Animation, Thailand
2022 Co-organiser for A Playground of Sound and Images, Beyond Animation Festival, Thailand  
2022 Co-organiser for Intensive Animation Workshop, Beyond Animation Festival, Thailand  
2022 Consultant for Animation in the Other Way Round, Klowerº, Thailand  
2022 Co-ordinator of Making Moving Image Tells, Thailand Creative & Design Center
2022 Co-ordinator of Reanimating the Archives: Thai Labour Museum, The Progressive Labour Movement, Thailand  
2021 Co-ordinator of the workshop Animation Therapy: Scratch Your Anger and Flip it!, Thai Health Promotion Foundation, Thailand  

CONFERENCES

2025 Doodling as an Animation Methodology: Exploring Improvisation, Play, and Sustainable Creative Practice through Experimental Animation, ASPERA annual conference, 25-27 Nov 2025, New South Wales, Australia
2025 Doodling In~Between Living Life, Screenwriting Research Network Conference and Sightlines: Filmmaking in the Academy Festival and Symposium, 17-20 Sep 2025, Adelaide, Australia
2025 Expanded Archive: Exploring Experimental Approaches to the Preservation of a House’s Time and Space, Experimental Archives Conference, 12th Sep 2025, Kingston University, England
2025 From France to Thailand: Navigating Cross-Cultural Collaboration for the Inaugural SiamANIMA, Association for Curators and Programmers of Asian Cinemas, at Asian Film Archive, 4-6 Sep 2025, Singapore
2025 Collective Animation as Well-Being Creative Practice, Asia Pacific Artistic Research Network Conference, 1-3 July 2025, Bangkok, Thailand
2023 Non-Fiction Animation & Memory,FilmEU-RIT Expanded Memories, Luca School of Arts, 8 Dec 2023, Bruss

GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS   

• RTP (Research Training Program) Scholarship (2027, 2026, 2025, 2024) 
• Erasmus Mundus Joint Masters (2023, 2022, 2021)  
• Thailand Ministry of Culture (2017)  

AWARDS 

2025 Special Mention for Animation Technique in South East Asia Competition, Craft International Animation Festival, Indonesia (Rose Rash, 2024) 
2025 Best Short Film, Chiang Mai Film Festival 2025, Thailand (Rose Rash, 2024)
2025 Shortlisted, the 2024 Bangkok Critics Assembly Award for Outstanding Thai Short Film (Rose Rash, 2024)
2024 «Kurzfilmtage Recommendations», 28th edition of the Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur, Switzerland (Rose Rash, 2024)
2024 Finalist,Professional Category, Lightbox SEA Animation Awards, Animation Nation Singapore (Rose Rash, 2024)
2024 Special Mention Award, the UK Animation & Music Video Festival 2025, UK (Rose Rash, 2024)
2024 Best Individual Animation, New York Short Animation Festival 2024, USA (Rose Rash, 2024)
2024 Shortlisted, Rising Star Awards, 10th Bangkok International Digital Content Festival, Thailand (Rose Rash, 2024)
2024 Shortlisted, Bangkok Critics Assembly Award for Outstanding Thai Short Film, Thailand (The Announced Tragedy, 2023)
2024 Nomination, the Best Animation Competition, South Taiwan Film Festival 2024, Taiwan (The Announced Tragedy, 2023)
2024 Finalist,Student Experimental Animation, New York Short Animation Festival 2024, USA (The Announced Tragedy, 2023)
2023 Honourable Mention, Best Animation Competition, 27th Thai Short Film & Video Festival (The Announced Tragedy, 2023)
2017 NEF Animation Prize, Animation du Monde MIFA Pitch, the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, France
2017 Ciclic Animation Prize, Animation du Monde MIFA Pitch, the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, France
2016 Shortlisted, Best Animation Competition, 27th Thai Short Film & Video Festival (Shallow, 2016)
2016 Golden Prize Digicon6 (Thailand), Digicon6 Asia, Japan (Shallow, 2016)

MEMBERSHIPS   

2024-Present CARI Creative Arts Research Institute, Griffith University
2017-Present SACD Society of Dramatic Authors and Composers, France