Montag | 24.04.2023 | 19:00 h

Tulapop Saenjaroen - Peripheral areas

(kuratiert und präsentiert von Rita Macedo)

The three recent shorts in this program interrogate the correlations between image production and production of subjectivity as well as the paradoxes intertwining control and freedom in late capitalism. In combining narrative and the essay film genre, Tulapop Saenjaroen (*1986) investigates subjects such as tourism, self-care, mental illness, free labor, power relations in storytelling and cinema itself.

 

Filmprogramm (64 min):

Notes from the Periphery
14 min | 2021 | HD (16:9) | col | sound | OVth (SUBen) | TH/UK

People on Sunday
21 min | 2020 | HD (16:9) | col | sound (5.1) | OVth (SUBen) | TH

A Room with a Coconut View
29 min | 2018 | HD (16:9) | col | sound | OVth/en (SUBen) | TH

 

Mainly shot in the peripheral areas of the ever-expanding Laem Chabang port in Chon Buri, Thailand, ´Notes from the Periphery’ interrogates the notion of territoriality, globalized networks and ownership through the fragmented relations of the nearby affected sites and communities.

‘People on Sunday’ is a reinterpretation and homage to ‘Menschen Am Sonntag’ (Germany, 1930). Executed from a different context, era, country and working conditions, this piece attempts to provoke the question of representability of free time and contemporary work ethic.

With a capitalistic-dictatorial-touristy regime as a backdrop, in “A Room with a Coconut View”, Kanya, a tour guide and hotel rep automated voice, leads her foreign guest, Alex, through a beach town in the east of Thailand.

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[ Abbildung oben: aus dem Film „A Room with a Coconut View“ (2018) von Tulapop Saenjaroen ]