{"id":9187,"date":"2021-10-22T12:00:13","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T12:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=9187"},"modified":"2024-12-17T20:44:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T02:44:36","slug":"anocha-suwichakornpong-tulapop-saenjaroen-and-pom-bunsermvicha-in-conversation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2021\/10\/22\/anocha-suwichakornpong-tulapop-saenjaroen-and-pom-bunsermvicha-in-conversation\/","title":{"rendered":"Anocha Suwichakornpong, Tulapop Saenjaroen, and Pom Bunsermvicha in Conversation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friday, October 22, 6:00 p.m<\/strong><\/em>
\nVirtual Event
\nGene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema
\nClosed captions available<\/em><\/p>\n

Join Anocha Suwichakornpong, Tulapop Saenjaroen, and Pom Bunsermvicha for a wide-ranging conversation about their collaborative projects, self-reflexive approach to media, and engagement with the history and politics of Thailand. Moderated by Melika Bass.<\/p>\n

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Anocha Suwichakornpong. Photo credit: Matthew Ng<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Tulapop Saenjaroen<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pom Bunsermvicha<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Pom Bunsermvicha_Lemongrass Girl, 2021. Image courtesy of the artist and Square Eyes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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

Anocha Suwichakorn\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adpong<\/strong>\u00a0is 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

Tulapop Saenjaroen<\/strong>\u00a0(SAIC 2009) is an artist and filmmaker based in Bangkok. His recent works interrogate the correlations between image production and production of subjectivity as well as the paradoxes intertwining control and freedom in late capitalism. Saenjaroen’s works have been shown internationally in exhibitions and screenings including the Locarno Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Image Forum Festival in Tokyo, Curtas Vila do Conde, 25 FPS in Zagreb, Kasseler DokFest, Vancouver International Film Festival, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre, Display gallery in Prague, and Moscow International Biennale for Young Art, among many others. He has won awards from Winterthur, Jakarta, Moscow, and Thailand. He holds a master of fine arts in fine art media from the Slade School of Fine Art, a master of arts in aesthetics and politics from California Institute of the Arts, and a bachelor of arts from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.<\/p>\n

Pom Bunsermvicha<\/strong>\u00a0is an independent director and producer based in Bangkok, Thailand. Her work, which mostly combines documentary elements with fiction, has been shown at venues around the world including the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands; Museum of Modern Art, New York;, Hamburg International Short Film Festival; Locarno Film Festival, Switzerland; and SeaShorts Film Festival, Malaysia.<\/p>\n

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

By the Time It Gets Dark<\/em>\u00a0(Anocha Suwichakornpong, 2016)\u00a0with\u00a0Lemongrass Girl<\/em>\u00a0(Pom Bunsermvicha, 2021)<\/strong>
\nTheatrical Screening
\nThursday, October 21, 6:00 p.m.
\nGene Siskel Film Center<\/p>\n

By the Time It Gets Dark<\/em>\u00a0(Anocha Suwichakornpong, 2016)<\/strong>
\nVirtual Screenings
\nOctober 22\u2013October 28
\nGene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema<\/p>\n

Come Here\u00a0<\/em>(Anocha Suwichakornpong, 2021) (Chicago International Film Festival at the Gene Siskel Film Center)<\/strong>
\nTheatrical Screening
\nThursday, October 21, 8:15 p.m.
\nGene Siskel Film Center<\/p>\n

Mundane History\u00a0<\/em>(Anocha Suwichakornpong, 2009)\u00a0with\u00a0Nightfall<\/em>\u00a0(Tulapop Saenjaroen and Anocha Suwichakornpong, 2016)<\/strong>
\nTheatrical Screening
\nSaturday, October 23
\nGene Siskel Film Center<\/p>\n

Krabi, 2562<\/em>\u00a0(Anocha Suwichakornpong and Ben Rivers, 2019)\u00a0with\u00a0Jai<\/em>\u00a0(Anocha Suwichakornpong, 2007)<\/strong>
\nTheatrical Screening
\nSunday, October 24
\nGene Siskel Film Center<\/p>\n

Tulapop Saenjaroen: Short Films<\/strong>
\nTheatrical Screening
\nThursday, October 28, 6:00 p.m.
\nGene Siskel Film Center<\/p>\n

Virtual Screenings
\nOctober 29\u2013November 4
\nGene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema<\/p>\n

Lemongrass Girl<\/em><\/strong>
\nVirtual Screenings
\nOctober 29\u2013November 4
\nGene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Friday, October 22, 6:00 p.m Virtual Event Gene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema Closed captions available Join Anocha Suwichakornpong, Tulapop Saenjaroen, and Pom Bunsermvicha for a wide-ranging conversation about their collaborative projects, self-reflexive approach to media, and engagement with the history and politics of Thailand. Moderated by Melika Bass. ABOUT THE ARTISTS Anocha Suwichakorn\u00ad\u00ad\u00ad\u00adpong\u00a0is a […]<\/p>\n

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