Taiki Sakpisit
Taiki SAKPISIT (1975, Thailand) lives and works in Bangkok. In 2008, after completing a Bachelor’s Degree in Cinema at San Francisco State University, he started creating experimental shorts and moving-image works exploring kinetic energies and aural/visual juxtapositions. His work has been exhibited in galleries, museums and at festivals around the world. The Mental Traveller (2019) was selected for IFFR’s Tiger Short Competition. The Edge of Daybreak is his feature film debut with its world premiere at IFFR 2021.
Filmography
(selection) Thoi kham thi thuk sap/Whispering Ghosts (2008, short), Tai kanwela/“…I did not dream last night” (2009, short), Tona Kanwela/Looking in God’s Eye (2010, short), Uru Wela/Deathless Distance (2010, short), Samsakart/Three Kings (2011, short), Unless He Tells a Lie, Unless He Tells a Lie (2011, short), Phukhaofai phirot/A Ripe Volcano (2011, short), Time of the Last Persecution (2012, short), The Age of Anxiety (2013, short), Trouble in Paradise (2017, short), To the Memory of My Beloved (2018, short), Tabula Rasa (2018, short), Shadow and Act (2018, short), A Certain Illness Difficult to Name (2018, short), The Mental Traveller (2019, short), Phayasohk phiyohkyam/The Edge of Daybreak (2021)
More info: Taiki Sakpisit
Taiki Sakpisit at IFFR
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The Edge of Daybreak
Monochrome impressions reveal the traumas that keep an influential Thai family imprisoned in emotional paralysis.
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Tiger Competition
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The Mental Traveller
The Mental Traveller meditates on the passing of time, external behavior and sensory realities on a psychiatric ward in Thailand.
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Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
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Endless, Nameless
All is far from what it initially seems in this hand-processed Super-8 film, shot in the private garden of a high-ranking Thai army officer.
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As Long As It Takes: Short
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