{"id":9185,"date":"2021-10-21T12:00:36","date_gmt":"2021-10-21T12:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=9185"},"modified":"2024-12-17T20:44:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T02:44:56","slug":"anocha-suwichakornpong-by-the-time-it-gets-dark","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2021\/10\/21\/anocha-suwichakornpong-by-the-time-it-gets-dark\/","title":{"rendered":"Anocha Suwichakornpong: By the Time It Gets Dark"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thursday, October 21\u2013Thursday, October 28<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Anocha Suwichkornpong By The Time It Gets Dark 2016 Courtesy of the artist and KimStim<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Theatrical Screening<\/strong>
\nwith\u00a0Lemongrass Girl\u00a0<\/em>(Pom Bunsermvicha, 2021)
\nThursday, October 21, 6:00 p.m.
\nGene Siskel Film Center<\/p>\n

Virtual Screenings<\/strong>
\nOctober 22\u2013October 28
\nGene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema<\/p>\n

2016, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand \/ France \/ Netherlands \/ Qatar, DCP, 105 minutes<\/p>\n

Over the last 15 years, Thai filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong has emerged as a singular voice in contemporary cinema for her fearless address of Thailand\u2019s ongoing political turmoil and dazzlingly inventive approach to form. Her second feature,\u00a0By the Time it Gets Dark<\/em>, is a shape-shifting tour de force, built around the rippling effects of the 1976 Thammasat University massacre, in which a student protest was brutally quashed by Thai government and right-wing paramilitary forces. The film begins as the story of a film director researching the event. As her questions grow more probing, the film refracts into a series of interconnected narratives of love, activism, cinema, pop culture, and the ways the past reveals itself in the present. Born the year of the Thammasat massacre, Suwichakornpong has frequently pointed to the echoes between the events of the 1970s and Thailand\u2019s climate of political suppression today. With\u00a0By the Time It Gets Dark,<\/em>\u00a0she asks profound and unexpected questions about purpose and connection in the face of history\u2019s roiling waves.\u00a0In Thai with English subtitles.<\/em><\/p>\n

Screening with:<\/em><\/p>\n

Lemongrass Girl<\/strong>
\n2021, Pom Bunsermvicha, Thailand, DCP, 17:34 minutes<\/p>\n

According to Thai superstition, a virgin can ward off rain by planting lemongrass upside down underneath an open sky. This belief remains prevalent to this day. As clouds begin to gather, a young production manager on a film set is tasked with carrying out this tradition. Written by Anocha Suwichakornpong and shot on the set of Suwichakornpong\u2019s\u00a0Come Here<\/em>\u00a0(2021),\u00a0Lemongrass Girl\u00a0<\/em>seamlessly shifts between fiction and documentary in this subtle reflection on gender, power, and sexism.\u00a0In Thai with English subtitles.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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RELATED EVENT<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Anocha Suwichakornpong, Tulapop Saenjaroen, and Pom Bunsermvicha in Conversation with Melika Bass<\/strong>
\nVirtual Event
\nFriday, October 22, 6:00 p.m.
\nGene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema<\/p>\n

RELATED SCREENINGS<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Come Here<\/em>\u00a0(Chicago International Film Festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center)<\/strong>
\nTheatrical Screening
\nThursday, October 21, 8:15 p.m.<\/p>\n

Mundane History<\/em>\u00a0with\u00a0Nightfall<\/em><\/strong>
\nTheatrical Screening
\nSaturday, October 23
\nGene Siskel Film Center<\/p>\n

Krabi, 2562\u00a0<\/em>with\u00a0Jai\u00a0<\/em><\/strong>
\nTheatrical Screening
\nSunday, October 24
\nGene Siskel Film Center<\/p>\n

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ABOUT<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Anocha Suwichakorn\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adpong<\/strong> is a filmmaker whose work is informed by the socio-political history of Thailand. Her films have been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of the Moving Image, New York; TIFF Cinematheque, Toronto; Cin\u00e9ma Moderne, Montreal; and Olhar de Cinema, Brazil. Suwichakornpong received her master of fine arts from Columbia University. In 2006, Suwichakornpong co-founded the production company Electric Eel. \u00ad\u00ad\u00adIn 2017, she co-founded Purin Pictures, an initiative to support Southeast Asian cinema. Between 2018 and 2020, Suwichakornpong was a visiting lecturer at the Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies at Harvard University. In 2019, Suwichakornpong was named a Prince Claus Laureate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thursday, October 21\u2013Thursday, October 28 Theatrical Screening with\u00a0Lemongrass Girl\u00a0(Pom Bunsermvicha, 2021) Thursday, October 21, 6:00 p.m. Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Screenings October 22\u2013October 28 Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema 2016, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand \/ France \/ Netherlands \/ Qatar, DCP, 105 minutes Over the last 15 years, Thai filmmaker Anocha Suwichakornpong has emerged […]<\/p>\n

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