Korakrit Arunanondchai
Korakrit ARUNANONDCHAI (1986, Thailand) is a video and multimedia artist based in New York and Bangkok. He acquired a Bachelor’s Degree from Rhode Island School of Design and received a Master’s in Fine Art from Columbia University. Arunanondchai was also educated at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine. As an artist and filmmaker, he has a worldwide range of screenings, solo and group exhibitions and performances. In 2018, Arunanondchai received the Ammodo Tiger Short Award at IFFR for With History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 4 (2017), the fourth entry in his ongoing film series Together with History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names. Also in 2018, he launched a Bangkok video-art festival with the inaugural event Ghost: 2561, highlighting the connections between Thailand’s strong tradition of animism and contemporary art.
Filmography
(selection, all short) 2012-2555 (2012), Painting with History in a Room Filled with Men with Funny Names (2013), 2556 (2013), 2557 (Painting with History in a Room Filled with Men with Funny Names 2) (2014), Painting with History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 3 (2015), With History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 4 (2018), No history in a room filled with people with funny names 5 (2018), Songs for living (2022), Songs for dying (2022)
More info: Korakrit Arunanondchai
Korakrit Arunanondchai at IFFR
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No history in a room filled with people with funny names 5
This dynamic film is charged with the idea of community – among humans and non-humans – in Thailand’s contemporary moment of instabi
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Bright Future Short
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Painting with History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 3
Drones replace divine spirits in Thai artist Korakrit Arunanondchai’s explosive film that contemplates the place for spirituality today through body p
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Bright Future
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Tiger Awards Competition for Short Films
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With History in a Room Filled with People with Funny Names 4
In a world where drones take on the role of spirits and co-exist with living species, Thai artist Korakrit Arunanondchai tackles the subject of
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Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
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Songs for living
Spirits find bodies to re-enter the world in this pulsing ritual, that celebrates life and collective existence.
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Ammodo Tiger Short Competition
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