Movies: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

  • 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
  • 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
  • 2014
    Footprints

    Footprints (2014)

    Footprints

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    Weerasethakul's contribution to an omnibus production exploring analogies between football and everyday life. The project was created by Mexican film director Daniel Gruener and originally broadcast during the 2014 FIFA World Cup....

    Footprints
  • 2011
    M Hotel

    M Hotel (2011)

    M Hotel

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    a film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul...

    M Hotel
  • 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
  • 2020
    2020

    2020 (2020)

    2020

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    Short for his website, kickthemachine....

    2020
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2014
    For Monkeys Only

    For Monkeys Only (2014)

    For Monkeys Only

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    For Monkeys Only - Video SD...

    For Monkeys Only
  • 2016
    Fan Dog

    Fan Dog (2016)

    Fan Dog

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    For a Fiery Monkey Year....

    Fan Dog
  • 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)
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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