MANUTSAK DOKMAI'S FILMOGRAPHY

I just found out that I had seen another film by Prap Boonpan but had forgotten all about it. This film is called AU IANG HONG: POSTMODERN (2001, 9 min). Prap directed this film together with Watcharapol Dangspha and Porames Sangwongngam. I liked this film only a little bit at that time, because I gave this film only B+. However, I wish I could see this film again. I think this time it is highly likely that I will like it much much more than in 2001.



--PARTIAL FILMOGRAPHY OF PRAP BOONPAN

1.AU IANG HONG: POSTMODERN (2001, Watcharapol Dangspha, Porames Sangwongngam, Prap Boonpan, 9 min)

2.TWO WORLDS IN ONE WORLD (TAWIPOP NAI EKAPOP) (2004, A+)

3.”POLITICAL” MOVIE (NANG GARNMUANG) (2005, 28 min)

4.THE SPECTRE: 16 YEARS LATER (NANG PHEE: 16 PEE HANG KWAMLANG) (2006, A+)

5.LETTER FROM THE SILENCE (JODMAI JAK KWAMNGIAB) (2006, 5.11 min, A+)

6.THE BANGKOK BOURGEOIS PARTY (KWAM LUKLUN NAI NGAN RUENREANG) (2007, 28.51 min, A+)

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Seeing the new film of Manutsak Dokmai (or Manussak Dokmai) in the Thai Short Film Festival 2007 confirms me that he is one of my most favorite Thai directors. So I think I should try to collect some information about him, though his information is hard to find. He is not listed in http://www.imdb.com/ yet.

MANUTSAK DOKMAI’S PARTIAL FILMOGRAPHY

Note: 1. I wrote this partial filmography by myself. It is not complete. I would be very grateful if anyone can provide more information on his works.

2.A lot of information here is from POPCORN magazine, Issue 9, 2005. This Thai magazine has a long and very useful interview with Manutsak Dokmai. This magazine is a must-have for anyone who is a Manutsak fan like me.

The website of this magazine is here:
http://www.popcornmag.com/


3.Most of the English titles here are not the official English titles of his films. I translated these English titles from the Thai titles.

4. The budget of GAY MEGADANCE, DIALOGUE, THE DEVIL RULES METROPOLIS, and MOMENT OF DISTRACTION is about 2 US Dollars (80 baht) per each film. Before Manutsak directed these films, he used to live with only 13 baht a day. He suffered from hunger a lot at that time.


FILMOGRAPHY

1.หลอก (HAUNT) (15 min)

This is a ghost film which Manutsak co-directed with many friends in college.

2.GAY MEGADANCE (2001, 6 min, A+)

3.บทพูด (DIALOGUE) (2001, 7 min, A+)

4.มารเกาะกุมนครหลวง (THE DEVIL RULES METROPOLIS) (2001, 13 min, A+)

5.แตง: เพียงชั่วขณะหนึ่งสภาวะจิตไม่นิ่ง (MOMENT OF DISTRACTION) (2001, 8 min, A+)

6.กรุงเทพ 220 ปี (BANGKOK 220 YEARS) (2002, 7 min)

7.วิธีคิด 1: ทหารลาวขอเปลี่ยนแนวคิดคนไทย (WAY OF THINKING 1: LAOTIAN SOLDIERS WOULD LIKE TO CHANGE THAI PEOPLE’S IDEAS) (2002, 8 min, A+)


8.มารเกาะกุมนครหลวง 2 (THE DEVIL RULES METROPOLIS 2) (2002, 4 min)

9.บทพูด 3: ฆ่าทุนนิยมนั้นไม่บาป (DIALOGUE 3: KILLING CAPITALISTS IS NOT A SIN) (2002, 4 min)

10.ใครกันแน่วะที่หนักแผ่นดิน (WHO IS REALLY THE SCUM OF THE EARTH?) (2003)

11.อย่าลืมฉัน (DON’T FORGET ME) (2003, 10 min, A+)

12.ข้อเท็จจริงเกี่ยวกับนายโดม สุขวงศ์ ตอน ภัยเงียบ (THE TRUTH ABOUT MR. DOME SUKAWONG: EPISODE—INVISIBLE THREAT) (2005, 13 min, A+)

13.SO BORED WITH MIDDLE CLASS (2005, 15.39 min)

14.DREAM WATCH FOR ANYONE WHO IS BELIEVED TO VIOLATE GOOD MORALITY (2007, 14 min, A+)


อ่านนิตยสาร POPCORN ที่สัมภาษณ์คุณมานัสศักดิ์ แล้วเจอประโยคนึงที่ชอบสุดๆ

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