Movies: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

0116643225059 is an early experimental film by Weerasethakul made during his time at SAIC. The work is about a long-distance telephone conversation between the filmmaker and his beloved mother in Khon Kaen, Thailand. Weerasethakul superimposed a phot...

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...

Apichatpong Weerasethakul: "Thanks to the sculpture, we recall the victims of political violence in Thailand."...

Glistening objects from a jewelry collection inspired by carnivorous plants are transformed into a colourful sea of garden creatures through hand-drawn animations of roots, insects and various other organisms. A loving tribute to Weerasethakul's moth...

Interrogating the possibilities of an existence without his memories, A Conversation with the Sun draws on selected self-documented footage over several years – the means in which the artist has chosen to record his life since he embarked on filmmaki...

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 ...

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

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....

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...

Made to celebrate the new year. A single firework travelling through the night sky....

Commissioned by The Sharjah Art Foundation...

This work filmed in the Peruvian jungle pays tribute to the American experimental filmmaker Bruce Baillie, who died in 2020, and whose work inspired Weerasethakul. An almost meditative vision takes in the sun reflected on rippling water, revealing th...

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's submission to 30/30 Vision....

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...

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...

A short documentary by Apichatpong Weerasethakul about lives connected by radio....

The videos were created with a pocket camera -its "eye" has a unique ability to see and interpret light and colour. This work introduces two "eyes", a pair for seeing communicate with one another and with other shadows, orbs, and cycles. They resolve...

"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...

Isabella, a woman in her mid-twenties, finally decides to tell her boyfriend that she is pregnant. His reaction leaves a rippling effect that causes Isabella to face her biggest fear....

A macro view of the microorganisms that flock to lamps in the darkness....