Country: Thailand
Year: 2012
Duration: 65'
The mother of the film’s young director was left incapacitated after a failed suicide attempt. Her life and that of her family are thus deeply affected by the woman’s mental illness, which led to her frequent recovery in a psychiatric clinic. All this, just when – the end of the 20th century – the economic crisis hit Thailand and the rest of Eastern Asia.
Biography
film director
Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul
Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul (Bangkok, Thailand, 1989) studied at the King Mongkut Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, from which he recently graduated. His education includes various courses and workshops held at the Anhalt Hochschule in Dessau, the Tokyo Talent Campus, the Salaya Film Festival in Bangkok and the Summer School of DocNet SouthEast Asia, in Manila. He debuted in 2009 with the short Fetus Moon, which he edited himself, as he did with his next film, The Collage (2009), for which he also wrote the screenplay. He has collaborated on various films as director of photography, including The Terrorists by Thunska Pansittivorakul, which was presented at numerous international festivals, including the 2011 Torino Film Festival. Mother (2012) is his first feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Fetus Moon (cm, 2009), The Collage (cm, 2009), Mother (doc., 2012).
Declaration
film director
“Mother is a hybrid of fiction and documentary. It is a portrait of the complicated, fragile, painful and realistic relationship between my mother and me. [...] The film is my attempt to explore and understand her, myself and my family. To put it in a wider context, I analogically portrayed how the Thai middle class family was affected by the Asian financial crisis in 1997 and explored the representation of family in Thai culture through the process of making this film. Thai media always shows the Thai family with one dimension: the good and the bad. To understand the society, we need to go to the smallest institution of it: family.”
Cast
& Credits
regia, montaggio, scenografia/director, film editing, production design
Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul
fotografia/cinematography Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul, Sutthichai Luangamornlert, Thitipong Kerdtongtawee
suono/sound Nopawat Likitwong, Kaikangwol Rungsakorn
interpreti/cast Natthaya Nakavech, Gun Chunhawat
produttore/producer Paolo Bertolin
produzione/production Hello Filmmaker
coproduttore/coproducer Donsaron Kovitvanitcha
fotografia/cinematography Vorakorn Ruetaivanichkul, Sutthichai Luangamornlert, Thitipong Kerdtongtawee
suono/sound Nopawat Likitwong, Kaikangwol Rungsakorn
interpreti/cast Natthaya Nakavech, Gun Chunhawat
produttore/producer Paolo Bertolin
produzione/production Hello Filmmaker
coproduttore/coproducer Donsaron Kovitvanitcha
