Film Screening and Talk Session of “Mlabri in the Woods”

KANEKO Yu
Filmmaker, Film Critic, and Associate Professor of Tama Art University

He is a filmmaker and film critic born in 1974 in Saitama. Also is a program director of Tokyo Documentary Film Festival since 2018. His theatrical release films include “Belgrade1999” (2009), “Muneo-ism” (2012), and “Imperial” (2014). His recent film, “A Man Who Became Cinema” (2018), was released theatrically across Japan. His film produced work, “The Garden Apartment” (2018), was also screened at International Film Festival Rotterdam and Osaka Asian Film Festival. “Mlabri in the Woods” was his fifth feature-length documentary film, released in 2019 and screened at Tokyo Documentary Film Festival, Cambodia International Film Festival, IUAES Anthropological Film Festival and etc. He has also published more than 20 books in the field of history of cinema and cultural anthropology, such as “Folklore in Borderland” and  “Boundary of Images,” (the SUNTORY Academic Awards winner) and “Ethnography of Photology.” Written and Edited books include “Chris Marker,” “Apichatpong Weerasethakul,” ”Jean Rouch,” and “Agnes Verda.”

ITO Yuma
Linguist (Online Attendance)

He is a linguist and independent researcher born in 1986 in Shimane. After resigning from the Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, he works as a researcher at the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa (ILCAA), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. From 2018 to 2020, he also worked as a full-time lecturer at Toyama University of International Studies. He has entered the local areas in Thailand and Lao and has researched language culture since he was an undergraduate student. Thus, apart from his Japanese, he becomes fluent in the Mlabri language.

Apinan Thammasena
Manager of Social Communication and Public Policy at Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn Anthropology Centre (SAC)

Born in Chiangmai, Apinan Thammasena earned his Master’s Degree in Arts Program in Anthropology from the Faculty of Sociology and Anthropology, Thammasat University. As an anthropologist, he has various interests, including media anthropology, ethnic groups and development issues. He has advocated laws concerning the protection of indigenous people’s wellbeing while promoting their rights through academic works and disseminating knowledge and understanding about ethnic groups to the public.

Interpreter
Siriporn Dansakun
Lecturer of the Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn University An Architect and Interpreter in Artistic Field

She received her B.E. in Architecture, Architecture, and Industrial Design Department, Faculty of Engineering, Chiba University, and M.E. in Architectural Planning, Graduate School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, Japan. She currently works as a lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture, Silpakorn University. Collaborating with The Japan Foundation, Bangkok, in 2018, she translated the pamphlet for the exhibition entitled “Struggling Cities: from Japanese Urban Projects in the 1960s.”