Mundane History with Nightfall – THEATRICAL SCREENING
@ Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
164 N State St, Chicago, IL 60601
Opening Saturday, October 23rd, at 5PM
2009, Anocha Suwichakornpong
Thailand, DCP, 82 minutes
In Thai with English subtitles
The corporeal and the cosmic collide to mesmerizing effect in Anocha Suwichakornpong’s debut feature, which follows the story of the tentative friendship between a recently paralyzed man and his male nurse while touching upon class, Thai history, the miracle of birth, and the death of stars.
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Nightfall
2016, Anocha Suwichakornpong and Tulapop Saenjaroen
Thailand/Singapore, DCP, 15 minutes
In Thai with English subtitles
Anocha Suwichakornpong 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; Cinéma 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. In 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.
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Image: Anocha Suwichakornpong, Mundane History, 2009. Courtesy of the artist and Electric Eel Films
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