Charlottenborg Art Cinema: Korakrit Arunanondchai

The film program, which accompanies the exhibition Welcome Too Late, opens with two films by Korakrit Arunanondchai, who lives and works in New York and Bangkok. Both films break with a linear timeline while switching between different timescales.

In his new film from 2017, “with history in a room filled with people with funny names 4”, a poetic and playful dialogue between the artist and a drone spirit called Chantri sets the tone:
“Someone explained the idea of reincarnation to me once; the universe is made up of one big river of spirits, both yours and mine and everything else that exists. The spirits are constantly reincarnating on a timeline that is neither the future, the past, nor the present. So Chantri, in this sense, you could be my grandmother.”

The other film is There’s a word I’m trying to remember, for a feeling I’m about to have (a distracted path towards extinction) from 2016. The film was also shown last summer on a boat in Spree during the Berlin biennale.