Movies: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

  • 2009
    I'm Still Breathing

    I'm Still Breathing (2009)

    I'm Still Breathing

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    A Thai band, Modern Dog, was invited to Nabua for the making of a music video for one of their songs, I’m Still Breathing. The teens are together in the village street and start to run, some of them kicking the smoking balls and throwing them into th...

    I'm Still Breathing
  • 1969
    Sarit

    Sarit (1969)

    Sarit

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    The bas-relief represents Sarit Thanarat, former Thai prime minister who ruled Thailand in the early 1960s. This wall is also located next to a statue of Sarit, in the city of Khon Kaen, where Apichatpong Weerasethakul grew up. The artist represented...

    Sarit
  • 2020
    2020

    2020 (2020)

    2020

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    Short for his website, kickthemachine....

    2020
  • 2011
    Trailer for CinDi

    Trailer for CinDi (2011)

    Trailer for CinDi

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    The official trailer for the 2011 CinDi FIlm Festival. An intimate choreography blurs the boundaries between stage curtain and screen....

    Trailer for CinDi
  • 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
    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
  • 2023
    Solarium

    Solarium (2023)

    Solarium

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    Produced for the Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai, (2023), « Solarium » was inspired by a 1981 horror film, « The Sunken-Eyed Ghost », by Thai director Komarachun. This installation places the public in the mindset of the protagonist, a ghost seeking hi...

    Solarium
  • 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
  • 2003
    Nokia Short

    Nokia Short (2003)

    Nokia Short

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    A short film made with a mobile phone, commissioned by Nokia as part of the promotion of the first model of a cellular phone with a built-in camera....

    Nokia Short
  • 2000
    Boys at Noon

    Boys at Noon (2000)

    Boys at Noon

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    Mock documentary following the escapades of three teenagers on an afternoon jaunt....

    Boys at Noon
  • 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
  • 2018
    Home

    Home (2018)

    Home

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    Home
  • 2009
    Haiku

    Haiku (2009)

    Haiku

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    In this video diary, Weerasethakul documents the set of Primitive Project in Nabua, Thailand, particularly the scene when teenagers are hypnotized and sleep inside a time machine....

    Haiku
  • 1999
    Malee and the Boy

    Malee and the Boy (1999)

    Malee and the Boy

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    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...

    Malee and the Boy
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1998
    Circulation

    Circulation (1998)

    Circulation

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    This film is a Movies strip that consists of 365 frames. The actor is actually moving in one direction but appears to swing like a pendulum on the screen. Sporadic booms of the soundtrack reveal the relationship between the human pendulum movement, t...

    Circulation
  • 2009
    An Evening Shoot

    An Evening Shoot (2009)

    An Evening Shoot

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    A group of teens gather at a house near the rice field for the shooting of an unknown movie. Wearing army costumes, they practice with their gun, one by one, and point it at a young man, walking in the distance, who reincarnates miraculously after be...

    An Evening Shoot