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Graphy Animation Review:
ฝนเลือด (Blood Rain) (2023) by Achitaphon Piansukprasert
ฝนเลือด (Blood Rain), a 73-minute animation directed by Achitaphon Piansukprasert which was the awarded winner of the Amazing Stoner Movie Festival 2023, will be released this Thursday 22 August 2024, in cinemas in Bangkok, Thailand. Through sauntering, endless rainfall, and vague sensations of being, Piansukprasert revives (and executes) the vampire Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fenu (1872).
Graphy Animation Interview:
Soravith Pongpakdee on Living Will (2024) (พินัยกรรมชีวิต)
Welcome to an interview with the director of Living Will, Soravith Pongpakdee. His black-and-white animated short film will have its screening at Microwave Film Festival between 17-25 August 2024 in Pakk Taii Design Week at Songkhla, Thailand. By the time he was finishing Living Will, I had a chance to talk with Pongpakdee in a coffeehouse at the Bangkok Art and Culture Centre.
GoCritic! Feature: Korean prize-winners at Animafest Zagreb: Inju Park’s Reborn with You and Yumi Joung’s Circle
Inju Park’s Reborn with You won the Zlatko Grgić Award, while Yumi Joung’s Circle received a Special Mention in the Short Films Competition
GoCritic! Review:
On Hold (2024) by Delia Hess
In a fast-paced world that often sees us bombarded with supposedly urgent activities and things to do, this year’s Animafest Zagreb opened with the slow and hypnotic 7-minute Swiss animated movie On Hold, directed by Delia Hess, in the Short Film Competition.
GoCritic! Review:
To Be a Seed (2023) by Julia Tostado
Mexican director Julia Tostado recontextualises a 17th-century folk legend to convey a modern feminist message using authentic natural materials in the short film animation process.
Graphy Animation Report:
Southeast Asia Annecy Pitching 2024
‘Southeast Asia Annecy Pitching 2024’, which will be held at Salon Haendel from 3:30 to 4:45 PM, on Thursday June 11th, is part of the ‘Partners Pitches’ at the Annecy International Animation Film Festival 2024 in France.
Graphy Animation Report:
10 Animation Shorts: The Flavours of Thai Independent Animation 2024
‘The Flavours of Thai Independent Animation’ project, co-organised by an independent Thai animation team: Klowerº, Graphy Animation and A-cabinet, is the first selection of inspiring and compelling animated shorts, offering diverse flavours and signature dishes from Thai independent animation directors to international audiences.
Graphy Animation Review:
KHON-temporary (2022) by Methas Chantawongs
‘Khon-temporary’ by Mathas Chantawongs, a Thai audio-visual practitioner, is roughly 4-minute animation reinterpreting the story of the Ramakien, ‘รามเกียรติ์’ in Thai, one of Thailand’s Indian-influenced national epics.
Graphy Animation Review:
The Last Visit (2023) by Keawalee Warutkomain
Keawalee Warutkomain, a Thai animation director, facilitator, and lecturer at Rangsit University (Department of Digital Art), graduated from Estonian Academy of Arts with her charcoal on book animation short.
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