NOTES FROM THE PERIPHERY

Tulapop Saenjaroen
Thailand/UK, 2021
14 min

Shot in the peripheral areas of the Laem Chabang port, Notes from the Periphery interrogates the notion of territoriality, globalized networks, and ownership through fragmented relations of the affected sites and communities nearby, shipping containers that become a policing tool, and barnacles.

Commissioned by the Abandon Normal Devices (AND) Festival as an exploration into globalised shipping networks, fringe territories and spaces of trade and labour that converge on the port city of Laem Chabang in Thailand, Notes from the Periphery merges fragments of digitized images into a liminal contemplation of life and subjectivity beyond the centre. The notion of periphery has a strong association to fundamentally unequal power configurations. The demarcated map becomes the territory as we mistakenly associate the need for survival with the imposed acceptance of man-made borders. Penetrating this system classifies the outsiders as fouling organisms.  (Emil Vasilache)

Date and Location

30th of September, 18:30, Cinema Elvire Popesco

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Tulapop Saenjaroen

Tulapop Saenjaroen is an artist and filmmaker currently living in Bangkok. His works interrogate the correlations between image production and production of subjectivity as well as the paradoxes intertwining control and freedom in late capitalism. He investigates subjects such as tourism, self care and free labour through re-making and re-interpreting the produced images and their networks. Saenjaroen received his MFA in Fine Art Media from The Slade School of Fine Art and MA in Aesthetics and Politics from CalArts. Saenjaroen’s works have been shown in exhibitions and screenings internationally including Locarno Film Festival, International Film Festival Rotterdam, International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, DOK Leipzig, Curtas Villa do Conde among others.

  • Technical sheet
  • CAST/VOICE: Supamart Boonnil
  • WRITER/EDITOR: Tulapop Saenjaroen
  • PRODUCER: Supamart Boonnil
  • ASSISTANT DIRECTOR/ASSISTANT EDITOR: Chanasorn Chaikitiporn
  • DIRECTOR OF PHOTOGRAPHY: Krittipat Naiwatanakul
  • ASSISTANT CAMERA: Tanachot Ua-anantathanakul
  • SOUND/MUSIC: Liew Niyomkarn
  • SOUND MIX: QUACK-audio
  • CO-SOUND MIX: Chalermrat Kaweewattana
  • SOUND RECORDIST: Nattawoot Nimitchaikosol
  • COLOURIST: Krittipat Naiwatanakul
  • DRIVER: Tanwarat Sombatwattana

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