Movies: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2015
    Fever Room

    Fever Room (2015)

    Fever Room

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    "Fever Room" features Jenjira (Jen) and Banlop (Itt), two of Apichatpong’s regular actors who also appear in his film, "Cemetery of Splendour". Like the film, this projection-performance presents the layers of reality and fantasy. Apichatpong fuses h...

    Fever Room
  • 2020
    October Rumbles

    October Rumbles (2020)

    October Rumbles

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    The acclaimed filmmaker has created an original short film in response to the global pandemic, titled October Rumbles....

    October Rumbles
  • 2010
    Empire

    Empire (2010)

    Empire

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    Initially a deep-sea diver is shown exploring a cave. Then a hand as shown handling a gastropod shell....

    Empire
  • 2017
    Memoria, Boy at Sea

    Memoria, Boy at Sea (2017)

    Memoria, Boy at Sea

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    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 ...

    Memoria, Boy at Sea
  • 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
  • 2009
    Making of the Spaceship

    Making of the Spaceship (2009)

    Making of the Spaceship

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

    Making of the Spaceship
  • 2022
    Action et Réaction

    Action et Réaction (2022)

    Action et Réaction

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    In 2020, young Thais protested outside ther German embassy in Bangkok over the activities of King Rama X in Germany. In the same year in Chiang Mai, students demanded the resignation of Prime Minister Prayut Chan--cha. In 2022, Weerasethakul filmed t...

    Action et Réaction
  • 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
    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
  • 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
  • 2020
    2020

    2020 (2020)

    2020

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    Short for his website, kickthemachine....

    2020
  • 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
  • 2020
    Flowers & Banana Wind

    Flowers & Banana Wind (2020)

    Flowers & Banana Wind

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    Video to celebrate Anthology Film Archives’ 50th Anniversary...

    Flowers & Banana Wind
  • 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
  • 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
    The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei)

    The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei) (2008)

    The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei)

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    There is a room at a Palace Museum that is filled with spirits. It accommodates countless of memories spanning several centuries. The room has observed the artifacts, the faces, the sounds, and the moving images. The room itself is a moving image, a ...

    The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei)
  • 2014
    Father

    Father (2014)

    Father

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    The original footage in Father was shot in 2003 by Weerasethakul’s brother when their father was undergoing kidney dialysis. Forever stuck in his memory, the artist reuses the footage here as well as in a prominent scene in his feature film Uncle Boo...

    Father