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A Director's Acting Résumé Comes With an Unusual Exhibit
· New York time
Thiti “Tongte” Srinuan, director of the Thai blockbuster The Undertaker, brought an unusually literal example of performance to a session at Taiwan Creative Content Fest in Taipei. According to Variety, he displayed a photograph of himself defecating on camera for real during his earlier work as a supporting actor with Taibaan Studio. The anecdote places the director on the other side of the camera, alongside his current role behind it. It is a recollection of his own acting work, not a claim about another performer's conduct. The photograph was the exhibit he chose to illustrate that recollection at the industry gathering. Filmmaking depends on the difference between what an audience sees and what actually happened during production. This example goes in the other direction: Srinuan's explanation removes the distance between the depicted action and its execution. The unusual detail belongs to that earlier acting role. An industry presentation can arrive with a résumé, a project slate or a carefully selected image. This one made the phrase “supporting material” do considerably more work than a conference program normally expects.
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