{"id":9191,"date":"2021-10-24T12:00:23","date_gmt":"2021-10-24T12:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=9191"},"modified":"2024-12-17T20:44:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T02:44:07","slug":"anocha-suwichakornpong-krabi-2562","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2021\/10\/24\/anocha-suwichakornpong-krabi-2562\/","title":{"rendered":"Anocha Suwichakornpong: Krabi, 2562 and Jai"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday, October 24, 6:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/em>
\nTheatrical Screening
\nGene Siskel Film Center<\/p>\n

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Anocha Suwichakornpong and Ben Rivers, Krabi-2562, 2019. Courtesy of the artists and Rediance Films.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Anocha Suwichakornpong\u2019s third feature, made in collaboration with filmmaker Ben Rivers, is a mischievous and delightfully mysterious portrait of the province of Krabi, a stunningly beautiful region in southwestern Thailand under threat by climate change and growing tourism. Fluidly slipping between documentary and fiction, the film follows an enigmatic out-of-towner who introduces herself to the locals under different guises\u2014a market researcher, a location scout, a tourist\u2014as she visits the region\u2019s iconic sites while gathering folklore, geographic data, and old timers\u2019 oral histories before disappearing altogether. When a colleague shows up to track her down, the film introduces a whole new host of characters, shifting between a pop star, commercials director (played by the filmmaker Oliver Laxe), and a prehistoric couple who are seemingly oblivious to the millennia that have passed. Titled after the Thai year in which it was shot,\u00a0Krabi 2562<\/em>\u00a0is as much a meditation on the region as it is about time, perspective, and filmmaking itself.\u00a0In Thai and English with English subtitles.<\/em><\/p>\n

2019, Anocha Suwichakornpong and Ben Rivers, Thailand \/ United Kingdom, DCP, 90 minutes<\/p>\n

Screening with:\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Jai<\/strong><\/em>
\n2007, Anocha Suwichakornpong, Thailand, DCP, 14 minutes<\/p>\n

Jai<\/em>\u00a0is a factory story slipping between fiction and documentary. Suwichakornpong has often noted that this film served as the genesis for her 2016 feature\u00a0By the Time It Gets Dark<\/em>.\u00a0<\/em>In 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

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RELATED SCREENINGS<\/em><\/strong><\/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\u2013Thursday, October 28
\nGene Siskel Film Center Virtual Cinema<\/p>\n

Mundane History<\/em>\u00a0with\u00a0Nightfall<\/em><\/strong>
\nTheatrical Screening
\nSaturday, October 23
\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":"

Sunday, October 24, 6:00 p.m. Theatrical Screening Gene Siskel Film Center Anocha Suwichakornpong\u2019s third feature, made in collaboration with filmmaker Ben Rivers, is a mischievous and delightfully mysterious portrait of the province of Krabi, a stunningly beautiful region in southwestern Thailand under threat by climate change and growing tourism. Fluidly slipping between documentary and fiction, […]<\/p>\n

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