For STRAY VOLTAGE at KINGS Artist-Run, recess teams with Electric Eel Films to present selected moving image works by Anocha Suwichakornpong and Tulapop Saenjaroen for a free, one-off evening of screenings, on Wednesday 12 October 2022, from 6:30–8:00pm, with the gallery open from 6pm. This is the second of three STRAY VOLTAGE public screenings at KINGS Artist Run, inviting leading moving image platforms to curate an evening of experimental screenings within the gallery.
People on a Sunday
Artist / Director: Tulapop Saenjaroen
Year of Production: 2020
Running Time: 20 Minutes
Language: Thai with English Subtitles
‘People on Sunday’ is a reinterpretation, a response, and a homage to a 1930 German silent film ‘Menschen Am Sonntag’; however, this response is done from a different context, a different country, different era, and different working conditions. This reinterpretation tells episodic stories of moving-image-related workers who are employed in the same performance-art-video project about free time.
A Room with a Coconut View
Artist / Director: Tulapop Saenjaroen
Year of Production: 2020
Running Time: 28 Minutes
Language: Thai with English Subtitles
A tour guide and also a hotel rep automated voice, Kanya, leads her foreign guest, Alex, through a beach town in the east of Thailand called Bangsaen. Since Kanya’s presentation is overtly aestheticised and strictly regimented, Alex decides to explore the town by himself, fantasising to get out of the frame.
JAI
Artist: Anocha Suwichakornpong
Year of Production: 2007
Running Time: 14 Minutes
Language: Thai with English Subtitles
A factory story, in which the process of image-making negotiated in the slippage between fiction and documentary.
Nightfall
Artist: Anocha Suwichakornpong & Tulapop Saenjaroen
Year of Production: 2016
Running Time: 15 Minutes
Language: Thai with English Subtitles
A day in the life of a nameless woman as she wanders around Singapore. Part documentary, part video essay, Nightfall is a fictionalized account of the time Anocha Suwichakornpong spent during a residency researching Thai politics in a foreign land.
STRAY VOLTAGE is supported by the City of Melbourne 2022 Annual Arts Grants Program.