{"id":9189,"date":"2021-10-23T12:00:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-23T12:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=9189"},"modified":"2024-12-17T20:44:27","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T02:44:27","slug":"anocha-suwichakornpong-mundane-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2021\/10\/23\/anocha-suwichakornpong-mundane-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Anocha Suwichakornpong: Mundane History and Nightfall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday, October 23, 5:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/em>
\nTheatrical Screening
\nGene Siskel Film Center<\/p>\n

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Anocha Suwichakornpong, Mundane History, 2009. Courtesy of the artist and Electric Eel Films.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The corporeal and the cosmic collide to mesmerizing effect in Anocha Suwichakornpong\u2019s debut feature.\u00a0Mundane History<\/em>\u00a0begins straightforwardly enough, as nurse Pun takes a new job caring for Ake, a paralyzed young man whose angry defiance gradually softens into grudging respect. But as the two men form a tentative friendship, Suwichakornpong explodes her own film, blowing open an abstract realm that encompasses everything from dream worlds to Thai history to the miracle of birth to the death of stars. At once slyly unassuming and dazzlingly ambitious, this existential odyssey heralded the arrival of a bold new visionary of Thai cinema.\u00a0In Thai with English subtitles. (<\/em>Description adapted from Film at Lincoln Center)<\/p>\n

2009, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand, DCP, 82 minutes<\/p>\n

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

Nightfall<\/strong><\/em>
\n2016, Anocha Suwichakornpong and Tulapop Saenjaroen, Thailand\/Singapore, DCP, 15 minutes<\/p>\n

Nightfall<\/em>\u00a0follows an unnamed woman through the streets, gardens, and tourist spots in Singapore. \u201cOn the soundtrack we hear a woman\u2019s voice reading the speeches of Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Kuan Yew and Thai Prime Minister Kittikachorn at a 1973 State dinner praising each other\u2019s economies 10 months before the popular uprising that overthrew Kittikachorn\u2019s military and anti-communist dictatorship. This coup planted the seeds of the 1976 Thammasat University massacre\u2014the historical subject of Suwichakornpong\u2019s 2016 feature film By the Time It Gets Dark\u201d\u00a0(Steffanie Ling,\u00a0Senses of Cinema<\/em>).\u00a0In Thai with English subtitles.<\/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

By the Time It Gets Dark<\/em>\u00a0with\u00a0Lemongrass Girl<\/em><\/strong>
\nTheatrical Screening
\nThursday, October 21, 6:00 p.m.
\nGene Siskel Film Center<\/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.
\nGene Siskel Film Center<\/p>\n

By the Time It Gets Dark<\/strong><\/em>
\nVirtual Screenings
\nOctober 22\u2013October 28
\nGene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema<\/p>\n

Krabi,<\/em>\u00a02562\u00a0with\u00a0Jai<\/em>\u00a0<\/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 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<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday, October 23, 5:00 p.m. Theatrical Screening Gene Siskel Film Center The corporeal and the cosmic collide to mesmerizing effect in Anocha Suwichakornpong\u2019s debut feature.\u00a0Mundane History\u00a0begins straightforwardly enough, as nurse Pun takes a new job caring for Ake, a paralyzed young man whose angry defiance gradually softens into grudging respect. But as the two men […]<\/p>\n

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