Tulapop Saenjaroen
Thailand

Born in 1986 Chon Buri, Thailand, Tulapop Saenjaroen is an artist and filmmaker whose practice encompasses performance, video and film. His recent shorts interrogate the correlations between image production and production of subjectivity as well as the paradoxes intertwining control and freedom in late capitalism. In combining narrative and the essay film genre, he investigates subjects such as tourism, self-care, mental illness, free labor, power relation in storytelling, and cinema itself through re-making and re-interpreting the produced images and their networks. Saenjaroen received his MFA in Fine Art Media from the Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, and MA in Aesthetics and Politics from CalArts. 

Saenjaroen’s works have been shown in film festivals, screenings, exhibitions, internationally including Berlinale, Locarno Film Festival; International Film Festival Rotterdam; New York Film Festival; Cinéma du réel, Paris; DOK Leipzig; International Short Film Festival Oberhausen; Images Festival (Toronto); European Media Art Festival; Chicago International Film Festival; Museum of the Moving Image, NYC; Valdivia International Film Festival; Curtas Vila do Conde; Vancouver International Film Festival; Uppsala Short Film Festival; CROSSROADS at SFMOMA, Ghost 2565: Live Without Deadtime, 100 Tonson Gallery, Harvard Film Archive, Abandon Normal Devices, UK; Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur: Festival du Nouveau Cinéma; among many other venues. His work has been the subject of focus at e-flux screening room, NYC; Conversations at the Edge at Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago; M+ Museum After Image, Korean National Film Archive. Saenjaroen won awards from Germany, Switzerland, Indonesia, Singapore, Russia, and Thailand. In 2022, he participated in SEAFIC Seed Lab and Oberhausen Seminar 2022.  Currently, Saenjaroen lives and works in Thailand.