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May 2, 2023 · No 21st-century filmmaker more breezily captures the multiplicity of modern life than Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who across seven solo-directed features and dozens of short films has created worlds both cosmic and intimate. Less than two years after Memoria ‘s U.S. premiere shook Lincoln Center’s foundation at the 59th New York Film ...
Q&A with Apichatpong Weerasethakul on May 6. In Apichatpong’s first feature—part road movie, part folkloric exercise, part surrealist party game—a camera crew travels through Thailand asking villagers to invent episodes in an ever-expanding story that ends up incorporating witches, tigers, surprise doublings, and impossible reversals.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or prize; Tropical Malady, which won a jury prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; Blissfully Yours, which won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard program at the ...
For this original documentary, Canadian actor and filmmaker Connor Jessup followed Apichatpong on a location-scouting trip to the Colombian jungle, in a rare glimpse at the director’s creative world that delves into the dreams and desires that fuel his work. One of contemporary cinema’s most beguiling artists, Apichatpong Weerasethakul ...
Jan 19, 2022 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul on Why Cinema Should Be Communal. As Memoria opens across the UK, the acclaimed Thai director talks to Rory O’Connor about casting Tilda Swinton and the power of the big screen. Rory O’Connor: The central conceit of your latest film Memoria – which premiered at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury ...
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, A Quiet Phantom (2021). Giclée print. 190 x 126.7 cm. Courtesy the artist. I tie the idea of bodies into this show—the divine body, the mutilated bodies of activists, and the body of belief. All these things that are disintegrating in my memory, in reality, and for sure in Isan.
Oct 24, 2018 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s house in northern Thailand is a luscious jungle paradise full of polished concrete and teak, palm trees and bamboo. Even the air smells zen. The house’s three ...
