anonymous gallery is happy to announce another edition of Anonymous Film Club (AFC) - the continuation of a project that features powerful films highlighting various artists, cultural personas, and artistic movements.

The presentation will feature the film “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall Past Lives” by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The fill was selected by the artist Jesse Gouveia, who willk be present to discuss the film at the conclusion of the screening. Please join us April 17, starting at 6pm for popcorn, film, and conversations.

HOST: Jesse Gouveia

FILM: Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

DIRECTED BY: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

YEAR: 2010

DURATION: 114 min

COUNTRY: Thailand

SCREENING @ : anonymous gallery 136 Baxter Street | April 17 6:00 pm

About the film:

Suffering from acute kidney failure, Uncle Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. Contemplating the reasons for his illness, Boonmee treks through the jungle with his family to a mysterious hilltop cave -- the birthplace of his first life.

About the artist / host:

Through the consideration of patterns of habit, memory, and collecting, Jesse Gouveia’s (b. 1992) practice examines the way we recollect our past and how we graph and archive mental records. From recreation to documentation, Gouveia steps between dimensions of memory and reconstruction.

Gouveia’s recent exhibitions include Photography Then, anonymous gallery, New York (2023), Higher Power curated by K.O. Nnamdie, New York (2021), First Impressions, anonymous gallery, New York (2021). Recent press include Office Magazine, The New York Times, and Paper Magazine. Gouveia’s photography has been featured in Interview Magazine, Vogue, and Financial Times.

About anonymous film club:

anonymous gallery is happy to announce anonymous film club (AFC); the continuation of a project that features powerful films highlighting various artists, cultural personas, and artistic movements. AFC was originally launched in 2012 and featured several powerful films highlighting various artists, personas and movements that have influenced the creative culture of the 21st century. Some of these films included Downtown Calling narrated by Deborah Harry; Captured - a film about photographer Clayton Patterson’s documentation of New York City’s Lower East Side since the 80’s; Beautiful Darling, a 2010 feature-length documentary film about Candy Darling, the transgender pioneer, actress and Andy Warhol Superstar. In Mexico City the gallery invited Leo Fitzpatrick who in turn selected to screen The Beaver Trilogy - three segments shot at different times: in 1979, 1981, and 1985. These unique films were presented and followed by a Q & A with individuals that helped bring the pictures to life.