Saipin Hamdani
Name : Saipin Kulkanokwan Hamdani
Born in : 1967
Contact : c/o Ali Mohamad Hamdani,
Bonumsar, Sonwar, Srinagar,
J&K 190001, India
e-mail : [email protected]
Education
2002 – Foreign Casual Course in Indian Art (Printmaking), Kala-Bhavana, Visva-Bharati University, West Bengal, India
1998 – Non Award Short Course in Diaspora Films, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, England
1998 - Non Award Short Course in Experimental Film, Birkbeck College, University of London, London, England
1997 – The Examination for the First Certificate in English, University of Cambridge, England
1989 – BA in Journalism (Film Making), Faculty of Journalism and Mass Communication, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Workshops
‘Experimental Film Making II’ conducted by Christoph Janetzko, organized by Goethe Institute, Bangkok, 1994
‘Experimental Film Making I’ conducted by Christoph Janetzko, organized by Goethe Institute, Bangkok, 1994
Work Experiences
November 2003 – June 2006: Senior writer, IMAGE magazine, Thailand
1994-1997: Free lance writer for IMAGE, ELLE, ELLE DÉCOR, City Life, Hyper, GM, EARTH2000, Thailand
1992-1994: Editorial writer of IMAGE magazine, Thailand
1990-1992: Editorial writer of Lalana magazine, Thailand
1989-1990: Free lance script writer for TV documentary programmes, Thailand
Exhibitions
A Group Show of Thai Ex-students studied at Santiniketan, at Art Gallery, Silpakorn University; January 2006, Thailand
‘Dialogue’ A Solo Show of etchings at Hemlock, on 1-31 October 2003, Bangkok, Thailand
Short Films
WIFE; 16 mm., colour, 30 min, 1995 (Official Selection at Singapore International Film Fest 1998)
03.15 AM; 16 mm., colour, 5 min, 1994
Streetside; 16 mm., B/W, 3 min, 1993
Barbwire; 16 mm., B/W, 2 min, 1992
Boonthing; 16 mm., colour, 13 min, 1992 (Official Selection at Asian Film Festival, Japan, 1993)
Behind The wall, 16 mm., colour, 5 min, 1989
Books
‘Questions Under the Tree’ a collection of writings; Circle Publishing,2004
'Kheun Dab' The Thai translation of NIGHT by Ellie Wiesel, Oh My God Publishing, 2007
Articles and Essays on Art
Thai Artists:
Montien Boonma: Life force that never extinguished
‘Women’ in Portraits by Jamras Kiatkong
Tivijit Peungkasemsomboon: ‘dmo dog’
International Artists:
Aeneas Wilder: The World in Empirical Association
Yayoi Kusama: Never Ending Dots
Exploring the Beauty in Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s Prints
The 20th Century Masters in Prints
What is in Andy Warhol’s Prints?
‘The Kiss’ in Art World
Henri Cartier-Bresson: The Living Images
Rodney Smith: The Surrealist Beauty
Marimekko: Legend of Finnish Design
