Metrograph Pictures is presenting a special survey event, Politics of Time, showcasing several films from Associate Professor of Film Anocha Suwichakornpong '06 between February 21 and March 1, 2026.
Audience goers will be able to enjoy screenings of films that span Suwichakornpong's career, including her thesis film for the MFA Film Program, Graceland, which originally premiered at the 59th Cannes Film Festival. Other films screening as part of the event include By The Time It Gets Dark (2016), Come Here (2021), Krabi, 2562 (2019), The Ambassadors (2018), and Mundane History (2009).
While Suwichakornpong's films are chiefly preoccupied with the social and political history of her native Thailand, her films all differ in their formal experimentation and groundbreaking narrative devices, making Suwichakornpong one of "the most unpredictable of contemporary filmmakers."
"We present a survey of an artist who relentlessly interrogates and subverts established forms," continues Metrograph in their event description, "suggesting fresh relations between lived experience and its cinematic representation."
Suwichakornpong will be present at several of the screenings to introduce the films and participate in Q&A sessions afterwards.
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, a film fund that supports and promotes independent Southeast Asian cinema. Anocha is a 2019 Prince Claus Laureate, DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Residency, and the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Residency Program recipient. She has taught filmmaking at Harvard University, Mahidol University, and has taught in the MFA film program at Columbia University as a film directing faculty since 2022.
