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The Edge of Daybreak – Taiki Sakpisit

Date:
Thursday 26 January 2023
19:30—22:00
Location:
→ Rijksakademie van beeldende kunsten
Sarphatistraat 470
1018 GW Amsterdam
Admission
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Current Rijksakademie guest resident Taiki Sakpisit will screen his 2021 feature film debut ‘The Edge of Daybreak’, followed by a Q&A moderated by curator and writer Julian Ross.

A family’s mental state reflects the troubled history of Thailand in Taiki Sakpisit’s doom-laden feature film debut. The oppression of the student uprisings in the 1970s and the 2006 military coup are the implicit historic anchors for an equal parts fluid and suffocating family chronicle marred by psychological trauma, violence and guilt complexes.

Read more/ rsvp via rijksakademie.nl

Images: stills from ‘The Edge of Daybreak’, courtesy of 185 Films and Taiki Sakpisit