Tulapop Saenjaroen

Born in 1986 in Chon Buri, Thailand, Tulapop Saenjaroen is an artist and filmmaker whose practice encompasses moving image, performance, and sound. His recent shorts interrogate the relationship between image production and the formation of subjectivity, as well as the paradoxes between control and freedom under late capitalism. Working through narrative, animation, and essay film, he explores themes such as tourism, self-care, mental illness, free labour, power relations in storytelling, metaphysical rupture, and cinema itself through processes of re-making and re-interpreting images and their networks.

Saenjaroen's works have been shown in film festivals, screenings, exhibitions, internationally including Berlinale; Locarno Film Festival; CPH:DOX; New York Film Festival; Cinéma du réel, Paris; MoMA doc fortnight; DOK Leipzig; International Short Film Festival Oberhausen; International Film Festival Rotterdam; Images Festival (Toronto); European Media Art Festival; Carpenter Center, Harvard; Chicago International Film Festival; REDCAT, Valdivia International Film Festival; Curtas Vila do Conde; Vancouver International Film Festival; Museum of the Moving Image, NYC; CROSSROADS, Ghost 2565: Live Without Dead Time, 100 Tonson Gallery, Harvard Film Archive, Abandon Normal Devices, UK; among many other venues.

His work has been the subject of focus including at e-flux screening room, NYC; Conversations at the Edge at Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago; M+ Museum After Image Hong Kong, Asian Film Archive Singapore, Korean National Film Archive, Doc Club Film Festival. Saenjaroen won awards from France, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Indonesia, Singapore, Russia, and Thailand. Currently, Saenjaroen lives and works in Thailand.

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