Movies: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

  • 2012
    Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer

    Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer (2012)

    Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer

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    Prominent film critic Tony Rayns has long been a supporter of Korean cinema. This film illustrates Rayns’ affection for Korean cinema through interviews of Korean cineastes that have a special affinity for him, including JANG Sun-woo, LEE Chang-dong ...

    Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer
  • 2015
    Vapour

    Vapour (2015)

    Vapour

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    The clouds descend onto a village and engulf it for a day. They touch the roof tiles, the beds, the chairs, the carpets, the grass, and the bodies, infecting everything with the fever of white stupor....

    Vapour
  • 2017
    async - first light

    async - first light (2017)

    async - first light

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    A collaboration between Apichatpong and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto from his album “async”. The people falling asleep in this film are all his friends, he sent cameras to friends and asked them to shoot. Apichatpong often carries Digital Harin...

    async - first light
  • 2014
    Footprints

    Footprints (2014)

    Footprints

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    Weerasethakul's contribution to an omnibus production exploring analogies between football and everyday life. The project was created by Mexican film director Daniel Gruener and originally broadcast during the 2014 FIFA World Cup....

    Footprints
  • 2008
    Prosperity for 2008

    Prosperity for 2008 (2008)

    Prosperity for 2008

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    Made to celebrate the new year. A single firework travelling through the night sky....

    Prosperity for 2008
  • 1999
    Windows

    Windows (1999)

    Windows

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    Windows is Weerasethakul’s first work in video. It is an improvisational piece using little physical movement to capture the “natural phenomena” occurring between the video camera, television screen, and window....

    Windows
  • 2014
    Father

    Father (2014)

    Father

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    The original footage in Father was shot in 2003 by Weerasethakul’s brother when their father was undergoing kidney dialysis. Forever stuck in his memory, the artist reuses the footage here as well as in a prominent scene in his feature film Uncle Boo...

    Father
  • 2012
    Mekong Hotel

    Mekong Hotel (2012)

    Mekong Hotel

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    Shifting between fact and fiction in a hotel situated along the Mekong River, a filmmaker rehearses a movie expressing the bonds between a vampire-like mother and daughter....

    Mekong Hotel
  • 2007
    The State of the World

    The State of the World (2007)

    The State of the World

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    An omnibus project examining, well, the state of the world....

    The State of the World
  • 2018
    Hale County This Morning, This Evening

    Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)

    Hale County This Morning, This Evening

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    Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South - trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction ...

    Hale County This Morning, This Evening
  • 2015
    Rolling

    Rolling (2015)

    Rolling

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    Dreams, travels, places, people....

    Rolling
  • 2012
    Ashes

    Ashes (2012)

    Ashes

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    In collaboration with Lomo, an Austrian camera company, and Mubi, a global film website, Weerasethakul was invited to make a work to launch the new LomoKino, a portable motion picture camera. Ashes juxtaposes the intimacy of his daily routine with th...

    Ashes
  • 2005
    The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005

    The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005 (2005)

    The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005

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    Three digital short films: 'Worldly Desires' by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 'Haze' by Tsukamoto Shinya, 'Magician(s)' by Song Il-Gon...

    The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005
  • 2002
    I-San Special

    I-San Special (2002)

    I-San Special

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    The soundtrack to a radio soap opera set in a luxury hotel is acted out by characters who are riding a ramshackle bus from Bangkok to a small town in Thailand’s Northeast....

    I-San Special
  • 2024
    Le bureau qui avait peur

    Le bureau qui avait peur (2024)

    Le bureau qui avait peur

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    Le bureau qui avait peur
  • 2019
    2019

    2019 (2019)

    2019

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    A short for his website, Kickthemachine...

    2019
  • 2022
    Action et Réaction

    Action et Réaction (2022)

    Action et Réaction

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    In 2020, young Thais protested outside ther German embassy in Bangkok over the activities of King Rama X in Germany. In the same year in Chiang Mai, students demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Prayut Chan--cha. In 2022, Weerasethakul filmed t...

    Action et Réaction
  • 2013
    One Water

    One Water (2013)

    One Water

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    Tilda Swinton, a British actress and friend of Weerasethkul, organized Film on the Rocks, a film festival in the Maldives where she invited the artist to take part in the project. While he was with her, Weerasethakul asked Swinton to recall her dream...

    One Water
  • 2020
    Seeing Circles

    Seeing Circles (2020)

    Seeing Circles

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    The videos were created with a pocket camera -its "eye" has a unique ability to see and interpret light and colour. This work introduces two "eyes", a pair for seeing communicate with one another and with other shadows, orbs, and cycles. They resolve...

    Seeing Circles
  • 2022
    Three Rocks

    Three Rocks (2022)

    Three Rocks

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    "Even with your eyes open, you can't see anything. You are a part of the earth's limitless manifestations." (Weerasethakul) These stones taken from the Chiang Dao Cave would sometimes spur the artist to contemplation, recalling the "obscurity of the...

    Three Rocks