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More stylistically akin to realist cinema than to the oftentimes highly manipulated, observational gaze of popular film, Weerasethakul’s body of work revels in observation, full of shots that linger past the action they contain, with few noticeable big-budget effects.
Dec 23, 2021 · This doesn’t quite make Weerasethakul a magical realist, though the South American setting of “Memoria” might make that description especially tempting.
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Jan 10, 2022 · The intensity of loss is a hallmark of Weerasethakul’s next three features, too: “Uncle Boonmee,” “Mekong Hotel” (2012)—a spare, hour-long film made, in some sense, to commemorate ...
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Nov 3, 2021 · Nov 3, 2021 5:16am PT. Tokyo Talk: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Gets Metaphysical Analyzing the Sound of ‘Memoria’. By Patrick Frater. Kick The Machine. Apichatpong Weerasethakul, whose film...
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Feature Films Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) Blissfully Yours (2002) The Adventure of Iron Pussy (2003) Tropical Malady (2004) Syndromes and a Century (2006) Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) Mekong Hotels (2012) Cemetery of Splendour (2015) 10 Years Thailand(2018) Short Films and Installations Bullet (1993) 0116643225059 (1994) ...
Apichatpong Weerasethakul. “Dear Khroo,”Apichatpong Weerasethakul Sourcebook: The Serenity of Madness, (New York and Chiang Mai: Independent Curators International and MAIIAM Contemporary Art Museum, 2016). Apichatpong Weerasethakul. “Jogging Around the Swamp.” Gagarin: The Artists in Their Own Words9:1 (2008). Brynjar Bjerkem, ed. Apichatpong Weer...
Amir Ganjavie, “A Homeland Swansong: Apichatpong Weerasethakul on Cemetery of Splendor,” Senses of Cinema 77 (December 2015), http://sensesofcinema.com/2015/feature-articles/apichatpong-weerasethakul-interview/ Brett Farmer, “Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Transnational Poet of the New Thai Cinema: Blissfully Yours/Sud Sanaeha,” Senses of Cinema 38 (Fe...
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Thai: อภิชาติพงศ์ วีระเศรษฐกุล; RTGS: Aphichatphong Wirasetthakun; IPA: [ʔà.pʰí.tɕʰâːt.pʰōŋ wīː.rá.sèːt.tʰà.kūn], born 16 July 1970) is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, film producer and Professor at Tama Art University in Tokyo. Working ...
Apr 7, 2022 · To put it another way: Weerasethakul doesn’t make convenient movies, and our culture of instant cinematic gratification could scarcely be more antithetical to the way he perceives the world.
