Movies: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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

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

Teem Nov 20, 9:53 min. Teem Nov 21, 22:38 min. Teem Nov 22, 27:31 min. Each projection in this work is a daily morning portrait of Teem, the artist’s partner. As winter approached in late 2007, Teem informed Weerasethakul that he would hibernate unti...

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....

For Monkeys Only - Video SD...

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....

A short film depicting a sunset....

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...

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...

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...

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....

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 ...

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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...