Artist
Tulapop Saenjaroen
Tulapop Saenjaroen is an award-winning artist and filmmaker who lives and works in Thailand and whose practice encompasses performance, video, and film. In combining narrative and essay film, he investigates tourism, self-care, mental illness, free labor, power relations in storytelling, and cinema. Saenjaroen received his MFA in Fine Art Media from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London, and MA in Aesthetics and Politics from CalArts, Valencia and works with Electric Eel Films since 2008. His works have been shown in film festivals, screenings, exhibitions, internationally including Locarno Film Festival; International Film Festival Rotterdam; DOK Leipzig; Chicago International Film Festival; Valdivia International Film Festival; Museum of the Moving Image, New York; CROSSROADS at SFMOMA, San Francisco; and many others. His work has been a focus at e-flux Screening Room, New York; Conversations at the Edge at Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago; and Korean National Film Archive. In 2022, he participated in SEAFIC Seed Lab and Oberhausen Seminar. He co-founded the experimental film and media screening series Rapid Eye Movement, which begins at the end of this year in Bangkok. Saenjaroen is artist-in-residence at Assembridge Nagoya, Japan (2022).
Tulapop Saenjaroen's work