Assistant Professor of Film, Anocha Suwichakornpong, recently contributed to a new book published by Firefly Press, Pier Paolo Pasolini: Writing on Burning Paper. The book was published on the centenary of Pasolini's birth and celebrates the life of the iconoclastic contemporary filmmaker.
In her essay, which includes photographs, sketches, and poems, Suwichakornpong engages in a dialogue between cinema today and Paolini’s timeless films.
Other prolific filmmakers who contributed to the book include Catherine Breillat, Luise Donschen & Helena Wittmann, Jia Zhangke, Radu Jude, Payal Kapadia, Alexandre Koberidze, Dane Komljen, Mike Leigh, Mariano Llinás, Roberto Minervini, Valérie Massadian, Luc Moullet, Ben Rivers, Angela Schanelec, Ulrich Seidl, Basma al-Sharif, Deborah Stratman and Gustavo Vinagre.
The book was officially released in November 2022 at the Metrograph theater in New York and is available to purchase on their online store and through Firefly Press’s website.
Anocha Suwichakornpong is an independent filmmaker who lives and works in Bangkok and the U.S. Her films have been screened at festivals such as Cannes, Sundance, Berlin, Locarno, and Rotterdam. Anocha’s work, informed by the socio-political history of Thailand, has received much international critical acclaim and has been the subject of retrospectives at the Museum of the Moving Image, New York and TIFF Cinematheque, Toronto. She founded the Bangkok-based production company, Electric Eel Films, to nurture works by emerging talents from Thailand and abroad and co-founded Purin Pictures. This film fund supports and promotes independent Southeast Asian cinema. Anocha is a recipient of the 2019 Prince Claus Laureate, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Residency, and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency Program. She has taught filmmaking at Harvard University and Mahidol University.
