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Directed by Fox Maxy, Tulapop Saenjaroen | 18+30+14+17 minutes | 15+ | Australian Premiere
6.30pm, Sunday, 19 November | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
Four works (two each) from two of the most exciting contemporary experimental filmmakers currently on the festival circuit.
MAAT (Fox Maxy)
What does it mean to come from somewhere? This film focuses on California's Native core.
BLOOD MATERIALS (Fox Maxy)
This film is about gifts from your blood.
NOTES FROM THE PERIPHERY (Tulapop Saenjaroen)
Commissioned by the Abandon Normal Devices Festival as an exploration into the globalised shipping networks, liminal territories and spaces of trade and labour that converge on the port city of Laem Chabang in Thailand.
SQUISH! (Tulapop Saenjaroen)
Squish! is a meditation on the self through lurid and liquid forms; filtered through both old and foreseeable technology informed by Thai animation history and contemporary culture, and a constant process of constructing and deforming new selves to simulate 'movements'. By extrapolating and redefining the terms of 'movement', be it through psychological, physical or political understandings, the work interweaves the medium of animation with a state of depression.
"Fox Maxy's work skitters along associative tracks. Testimony, interviews and activism often play for an extended length against digital backdrops and landscapes that Maxy creates themselves; other times, footage of friends and family are edited into rapid-fire cascades, their links often excitingly too fast to follow. Soundtracked by a jittery mix of Native artists and more ubiquitous figures (Tupac and Dolly Parton are in there, too), the results are a slipstream into Maxy's consciousness, where cultural and political issues sit side-by-side with diaristic footage shot since 2011."
- Vadim Rizov, Filmmaker Magazine
"Tulapop Saenjaroen's videos swerve around serious and whimsical subjects and moods. Just in the same way that work and leisure in this world are too close for comfort, Saenjaroen's contemporary work subjectivities traverse a spectrum of relaxation, experimentation, and social relationships as they take on shades of self-medication, exploitation, networking, and multi-performing for the diffuse labor market. However, the videos do not depict workers working, but present work within a theater of his cinematic construction."
- Steff Hui Ci Ling, e-flux
Country: USA/Thailand
Year: 2020/2021
Language: English/Thai