The Quarterly - Singapore Art Museum

Moving Image Gallery Screenings
Films from Thailand
In October, the Moving Image Gallery presents three features and a compilation of short films by Thai
filmmakers in conjunction with Natee Utarit: After Painting. Depicting their idiosyncratic and energetic
takes on contemporary Thai experience, these films tackle topics ranging from political struggle to
folkloric belief, and religious schism to the amalgamation of cultures. Many of the works are concerned
with depicting locally-specific preoccupations and practices that structure much of daily life and living.
This screening programme highlights the work of young, up-and-coming Thai directors.
Fri, 15 Oct to Sat, 23 Oct | 7:30pm | Moving Image Gallery, SAM at 8Q
$10. Limited seating. Tickets available for purchase at SAM at 8Q.
Please visit www.singaporeartmuseum.sg for film ratings.
Agrarian Utopia
Uruphong Raksasad, 2009, Thai with English subtitles, 122 minutes.
Fri, 15 Oct | 7:30pm
Two rice-farming families are forced to work together on a shared plot of land due to spiralling debts and
land seizure. This experimental documentary is at once a paean to the director’s pastoral childhood in
northern Thailand, and an uncompromising examination of the effects of political and social change on
the rural poor. Beautiful and haunting, Agrarian Utopia has won the UNESCO award at the Asia Pacific
Screen Awards and been awarded prizes in Toronto, Brussels and Rotterdam.
Short Films from Thailand, 109 minutes.
Sat, 16 Oct | 3pm
• Panatipata
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, Thailand, Thai with English subtitles, 30 minutes, Singapore premiere.
Trouble ensues when Kai seeks out unusual remedies to heal a painful leg. A comedy about food, families
and belief.
• Cherie is Korean-Thai
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit, 2010, Thai with English subtitles, 19 minutes, Singapore premiere.
Upcoming actress Cherie invites two labourers to help her research a role for her new soap opera.
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