Movies: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

  • 2012
    Sakda (Rousseau)

    Sakda (Rousseau) (2012)

    Sakda (Rousseau)

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    Created in celebration of the three-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, this short essay centres on a monologue delivered by a reincarnation of the philosopher in twenty-first century Thailand....

    Sakda (Rousseau)
  • 2009
    Nabua Song

    Nabua Song (2009)

    Nabua Song

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    Petch, one of the young men of Nabua, composed and plays this song about his village written to commemorate the first shoot-out between the army and the farmer communists 43 years before. The song is combined with an image of Kamgiang, Petch’s friend...

    Nabua Song
  • 1994
    Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves

    Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves (1994)

    Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves

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    A short documentary by Apichatpong Weerasethakul about lives connected by radio....

    Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves
  • 2018
    Home

    Home (2018)

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    Home
  • 2019
    Untitled

    Untitled (2019)

    Untitled

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    Apichatpong Weerasethakul's submission to 30/30 Vision....

    Untitled
  • 2022
    A Conversation with the Sun (Installation)

    A Conversation with the Sun (Installation) (2022)

    A Conversation with the Sun (Installation)

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    Interrogating the possibilities of an existence without his memories, A Conversation with the Sun draws on selected self-documented footage over several years – the means in which the artist has chosen to record his life since he embarked on filmmaki...

    A Conversation with the Sun (Installation)
  • 1969
    9 Temples to Heaven

    9 Temples to Heaven (1969)

    9 Temples to Heaven

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    A family of 9 takes their grandmother on a merit-making trip to 9 temples in 1 day, hoping to prolong her life. But the trip takes an unexpected turn....

    9 Temples to Heaven
  • 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
  • 2014
    Fireworks Sketch

    Fireworks Sketch (2014)

    Fireworks Sketch

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    This film is a study for "Fireworks (Archives)", a fiction set at night-time amng the animal scultures at Wat Sala Kaew Ku Sculture Park. For Weerasethakul, these scultures represent a form of rebellion against tical oppression and the harshness of d...

    Fireworks Sketch
  • 2012
    Cactus River

    Cactus River (2012)

    Cactus River

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    Cactus River is a diary of the time Apichatpong Weerasethakul visited a newlywed couple near the Mekong River....

    Cactus River
  • 2021
    Night Colonies

    Night Colonies (2021)

    Night Colonies

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    A macro view of the microorganisms that flock to lamps in the darkness....

    Night Colonies
  • 2024
    Le bureau qui avait peur

    Le bureau qui avait peur (2024)

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    Le bureau qui avait peur
  • 2018
    Jenjira, Brother Triam

    Jenjira, Brother Triam (2018)

    Jenjira, Brother Triam

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    For over 20 years, Werasethakul has worked with the same crew and actors. In this video, he asks two of his close collaborators to recount and perform their dreams for the camera. Here Jenjira shares a childhood dream in with her deceased brother rea...

    Jenjira, Brother Triam
  • 2008
    Diseases and a Hundred Year Period

    Diseases and a Hundred Year Period (2008)

    Diseases and a Hundred Year Period

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    Diseases and a Hundred Year Period
  • 2014
    Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA

    Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA (2014)

    Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA

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    Apichatpong Weerasethakul's solo exhibition "PHOTOPHOBIA" is held commemorating the 5th anniversary of the opening of Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA....

    Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA
  • 2013
    Blue Propeller

    Blue Propeller (2013)

    Blue Propeller

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    Blue Propeller is made to be shown with One Water. The fingernails were painted the color of the sky and the sea. But the sky was grey. The nail color instead matched the plane engine’s blue....

    Blue Propeller
  • 2022
    For Bruce

    For Bruce (2022)

    For Bruce

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    This work filmed in the Peruvian jungle pays tribute to the American experimental filmmaker Bruce Baillie, who died in 2020, and whose work inspired Weerasethakul. An almost meditative vision takes in the sun reflected on rippling water, revealing th...

    For Bruce
  • 2018
    A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

    A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2018)

    A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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    Canadian actor and filmmaker Connor Jessup (Closet Monster, Falling Skies) profiles Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a maverick of Thai cinema who explores the slippery nature of time and consciousness with a sublimely idiosyncratic, often surreal approac...

    A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • 2021
    Uncertain Path

    Uncertain Path (2021)

    Uncertain Path

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    Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Costa, Manoel de Oliveira y and the film's director, with their own personal views, share that thin line that links life with cinema....

    Uncertain Path
  • 2009
    A Dedicated Machine

    A Dedicated Machine (2009)

    A Dedicated Machine

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    Nabua’s spaceship as an ideally manufactured vessel slowly lifts off from the ground and flutters in the air for a moment. Then it moves back down to the earth. This loop portrays a never-really-taking-off spaceship....

    A Dedicated Machine