Krabi, 2562 with Jai - THEATRICAL SCREENING

Schedule

Sun Oct 24 2021 at 05:00 pm

Location

Gene Siskel Film Center of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago | Chicago, IL

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2019, Anocha Suwichakornpong and Ben Rivers
Thailand / United Kingdom, DCP, 90 minutes
In Thai and English with English Subtitles
Anocha Suwichakornpong’s 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.
Jai
2007, Anocha Suwichakornpong
Thailand, DCP, 14 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 and Ben Rivers, Krabi 2562, 2019. Courtesy of the artists and Rediance Films
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