Kong Pahurak

BIOGRAPHIE

After graduated from Archaeology faculty at Silapakorn University in Thailand, Kong started his career as a photographer, while keeping interested in filmmaking especially the works of Ingmar Bergman, a Swedish director, who he later chose as the subject for his master thesis. After received master degree, and continued study filmmaking in Japan in 2007, Kong has started making a series of short films. In 2009, Censored, his first work was finally completed. The film was well received and was invited to various competitions and film festivals, which is also the same with other films. Kong's works usually depict social symptoms such as materialism, fascism, or isolation with lighter tone making most of his works a black comedy. In 2011, Kong has started working on his feature length debut, In the Flesh. The film is partly funded by his film school and Kong own company, Kinograf Pictures, with guidance from Electric Eel Films. The film was premiered in 2017 Bangkok ASEAN Film Festival and is still being invited to other festivals around the world. Outside directing, Kong has also worked as a cinematographer, notably for Woo Ming Jin’s Second Life of Thieves (2014), Edmund Yeo’s River of Exploding Durians (2014), Pimpaka Towira’s Prelude to the General (2016), Prabda Yoon’s Someone from Nowhere (2017).

FILMOGRAPHIE