IMoCA Myanmar - Saul Chan Htoo Sang

Saul Chan Htoo Sang

(born in 1998) is an emerging artist and filmmaker based in Yangon and Chiang Mai. Saul’s journey as an artist began before he realized it. Growing up in the heart of Yangon, Saul was always drawn towards the performance artists, abstract painters, contemporary poets, street pho- tographers, and documentary filmmakers around him. From 2014 to 2017, Saul organized monthly Open Mic Nights with a handful of his friends on his parent’s rooftop, after attending such gatherings at Nawaday Tharlar Gallery. Around the same time, Saul’s learned the basics of filmmaking through an internship at Tagu Films. Later, he pursued an independent major in Ethnographic & Media studies at Grinnell College in Iowa, USA, graduating in 2023. His first short documentary film, Underneath My Chin (2020), was screened at 10th Waltham Film Festival. After two years in the making, Saul’s next film, “Portraits of the Wound” will be released soon. Currently, Saul’s working as a freelance filmmaker while serving as a creative director for Yoyamay.

Artist Statement

“I like them to feel like splinter after watching my movie. My approach is with the intention that viewers should not forget the movie.

Portrait of the wound is an experimental short film starring the artist himself. This film is about the physical and mental trauma of the time. In the midst of the immediate political unrest and the social collapse, which effected many people have been lost of hope with wounded by spiritually damages.

Animism’s core thinking tends to focus more on the inherent capacity of objects existed beyond subjectivity. Animism is a concept of the spirit for those objects and subject, it brings escape beyond capitalist power.* Human and animal spirits are alternately connected to Artist said, “I like them to feel like splinter after watching my movie. My approach is with the intention that viewers should not forget the movie. Artist glimps to the viewer to not forget the wounds we get from the time, and the message to the This film is a dark-side phe- nomena of our living in the time now.

Film

Portrait of the wound

Performance

Portrait of the wound

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