By The Time It Gets Dark

Director: Anocha Suwichakornpong

2016 / 105min / DCP

​​Suwichakornpong’s second feature presents itself as a seemingly straightforward arthouse film about a young director, Ann (Visra Vichit-Vadakan), preparing a project about the 1976 massacre of student activists at Thammasat University, but as its protagonist faces a creative crisis, suddenly splinters into a plethora of different styles—documentary, pop musical, melodrama, “post-internet” digital meltdown finale—whose frustration of audience expectations mirror Ann’s own frustration at trying to understand an unknowable history. “A repeatedly self-immolating work… a browbeating interrogation of the constant and necessary deceits of the filmmaking apparatus, particularly when applied to the challenge of filming history—it elicits the viewer’s confidence and credulity time and again.”—Nick Pinkerton, Artforum

Intro and Q&A with Anocha Suwichakornpong Saturday, October 29