Movies: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

"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 ...

The story based on the mysterious portrait of the town of Nabua in northeastern Thailand. Soon after nightfall when the crepuscular violets concede to blackness, the wind's rustling intensifies and the boys come out to play....

Prominent film critic Tony Rayns has long been a supporter of Korean cinema. This film illustrates Rayns’ affection for Korean cinema through interviews of Korean cineastes that have a special affinity for him, including JANG Sun-woo, LEE Chang-dong ...

A recreation of an event to commemorate the presence of the dead and the decayed memories of the living, of filmmaking...

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....

A joyful shot recorded by Weerasethakul himself and two young men who become acquainted by filming each other in the back of a moving pickup truck. Though seemingly playful, the short film is a subtle portrait of migrant workers in the north of Thail...

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....

Described as being based on Weerasethakul's dreams....

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...

This film depicts Bunleua Sulilat’s temple/sculpture garden 'Sala Keoku', located in northern Thailand. Passages of blackness sporadically dissolve under the fitful internal illumination of sparklers, which light up to reveal Sulilat’s unorthodox tem...

This film featuring Tilda Swinton was shot early 2024, in a abandoned camp of the Kew Thab Yang Forest Preserve in Chiang Rai. The artist made two versions filmed by different cameras, resulting in two expressions. This version, filmed with a pocket ...

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's solo exhibition "PHOTOPHOBIA" is held commemorating the 5th anniversary of the opening of Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA....

The soundtrack to a radio soap opera set in a luxury hotel is acted out by characters who are riding a ramshackle bus from Bangkok to a small town in Thailand’s Northeast....

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

A short film depicting a sunset....

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...

A film crew go in search of Nok Phii - a rare bird which feeds on the blood of other creatures....

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...

For a Fiery Monkey Year....

a film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul...