Movies: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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...

Jenjira Pongpas-Widner describes a dream in which she discovers her lifeless body in a field....

An hommage to Shellie Fleming...

A collaboration with a group of villagers on the periphery of Khon Kaen province in the northeast of Thailand, recording them as they agree to take turns to act scenes scripted from two episodes of the TV series 'Tong Prakaisad', a rags-to-riches TV ...

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 stranger arrives in Sarajevo and barges into Damir's reclusive world. Little by little she takes over his life. She absorbs his dreams, until finally she threaten his very existence....

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...

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....

Glistening objects from a jewelry collection inspired by carnivorous plants are transformed into a colourful sea of garden creatures through hand-drawn animations of roots, insects and various other organisms. A loving tribute to Weerasethakul's moth...

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...

This film depicts Bunleua Sulilat’s temple/sculpture garden 'Sala Keoku', located in northern Thailand. Passages of blackness sporadically dissolve under the fitful internal illumination of sparklers, which light up to reveal Sulilat’s unorthodox tem...

The working men, the animals, and the rain orchestrated this silent video portraying a month-long, spaceship-making process....

The work is part of the Memoria Project, the first major series of work that is set outside of Weerasethakul’s home country. Given his affinity for the Amazon, of which Thai jungle tales were originally inspired, Weerasethakul has started to explore ...

Sakda Kaewbuadee (Tong) describes a dream in which he and his friend Somchai are in room filled with massive collection of books....

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....

The subject is a 10 year-old boy who is in charge of the microphone. He roams to places around Bangkok to gather sounds for the video. The sound indicates the direction he headed during the filming and displays his point of interests. The filmmaker i...

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...

A woman lies awake at night. Nearby, a set of theatre backdrops unspools itself, unveiling two alternate landscapes. Upon the woman’s blue sheet, a flicker of light reflects and illuminates her realm of insomnia....

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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....