The Songs of Rice

Posted 14/09/2014

In ARKIPEL 2014 - Electoral Risk, Festival Updates

SP BEFF 2 / SUN. 14 SEP, 14.00 / CINEMA XXI – TIM

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18+

Country of production Thailand
Language Thai
Subtitle English
75 min, Color, 2014

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Filem ini merupakan rekaman visual dari ‘kultur tani’ dan pengaruhnya pada masyarakat di berbagai wilayah di Thailand. Struktur liris dokumenter ini merefleksikan melodi dalam ‘nyanyian padi’, disusun dengan ragam harmoni orang-orang yang bernyanyi dalam suara-suara berbeda, tetapi saling berbagi perasaan yang sama. Filem ini merupakan yang ketiga dari tirologi, didahuli oleh Stories From The North dan Agrarian Utopia.

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This is a visual record of rice culture and its influences on the people in different parts of Thailand. The lyrical structure of this documentary film reflects the melodies in the songs of rice, crafted and composed by the diverse harmonies of the people who may sing in different voices but who share the same heart. This is the final movie in the rice trilogy that began with Stories From The North and Agrarian Utopia.

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Thailand

Uruphong Raksasad

Lahir tahun 1977 dalam keluarga petani di Distrik Tering, 60 km dari Chiang Rai, bagian Utara Thailand. Urophong pindah ke kota di usia 18 tahun, melanjutkan pendidikan di Thammasat, jurusan filem dan fotografi. Lulus tahun 2000, dia bekerja sebagai editor filem supervisor pasca produksi untuk sejumlah filem di Thailand. Sejak 2004, ia meninggalkan ranah industri dan memulai gerakan akar rumput melalui narasi-narasi di kampungnya.

Born in 1977 to a farming family in the district of Terng, 60 kilometres from Chiang Rai, the northern part of Thailand, Uruphong came to the capital for the first time when he was 18, to further his study at Thammasat’s Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communications where he majored in film and photography. After graduation in 2000, he had worked as a film editor and postproduction supervisor for several Thai feature films. Since 2004, he left quietly from the industry and has tried to achieve his grassroots filmmaking through the story from his home village.

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