Movies: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

  • 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
  • 2011
    Monsoon

    Monsoon (2011)

    Monsoon

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    Made for 3.11 A Sense of Home Films project, organised by the Nara IFF Organising Committee....

    Monsoon
  • 2009
    Primitive

    Primitive (2009)

    Primitive

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    A series of short films in which the history of the Thai border town of Nabua is re-imagined as an elusive science fiction ghost story rooted in Thai folklore....

    Primitive
  • 2007
    My Mother’s Garden

    My Mother’s Garden (2007)

    My Mother’s Garden

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    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...

    My Mother’s Garden
  • 2018
    Fiction

    Fiction (2018)

    Fiction

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    "Night-time, fluorescent lamps buzzing and scuttling insects a hand writing in a blank book, writing and attempting to record a dream. The image envelopes the viewer, the projection plays on all surfaces insects, hand and lights slide across the ...

    Fiction
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2020
    Decameron

    Decameron (2020)

    Decameron

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    Decameron was shot in lockdown during the Thai monsoon season, in 2020. In a dark room, a woman removes insects from a mosquito net in order to cook them. The moving light she holds briefly reveals her face, the transparent panel of the mosquito net ...

    Decameron
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2015
    Rolling

    Rolling (2015)

    Rolling

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    Dreams, travels, places, people....

    Rolling
  • 2018
    Sakda, Somchai

    Sakda, Somchai (2018)

    Sakda, Somchai

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

    Sakda, Somchai
  • 2001
    Haunted Houses

    Haunted Houses (2001)

    Haunted Houses

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    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 ...

    Haunted Houses
  • 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
  • 2003
    This and a Million More Lights

    This and a Million More Lights (2003)

    This and a Million More Lights

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    One of several one-minute artists’ videos made for the Nelson Mandela Foundation’s 46664: Give 1 Minute of Art to AIDS campaign. A strobing fluorescent light inter-cuts scenes from an urban swimming pool; a young boy tempts the water....

    This and a Million More Lights
  • 2022
    Walking

    Walking (2022)

    Walking

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    "A morning at home is full of vibrations. The movements of surrounding lives manifest on the wooden floor. Today, the feet are free. They become autonomous and synchronize with the leaves, the wind, and the sun. At one point, they merge. At another p...

    Walking
  • 2016
    Invisibility

    Invisibility (2016)

    Invisibility

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    Invisibility displays Weerasethakul’s continued interest in the issue of perception and memory. The installation takes threads from his recent films, Cemetery of Splendor and Fever Room, both of which feature the same actors. Here, he takes them deep...

    Invisibility
  • 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
  • 2009
    Nabua

    Nabua (2009)

    Nabua

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    A documentation of Nabua altered into a field of lightning. The film, in the manner of an old sci-fi or horror movie, shows a set of mini-explosions creating a synchronised series of bolts of lightning like a downpour of bullets from the sky. The fla...

    Nabua