Apichatpong Weerasethakul — Playwright (32)
A Conversation with the Sun (2022) [Movie] Douban
A Conversation with the Sun
director: 阿彼察邦·韦拉斯哈古 Apichatpong Weerasethaku
other title: 太陽との対話 / 与太阳的对话
For Aichi Triennale 2022, Weerasethakul collaborates with Japanese artists to create his first augmented and virtual reality performance and let visitors commune with invisible ghost-like presences, encounter sick and sleeping bodies, and experience time suspended in a circle. Weerasethakul, whose previous works have brought the invisible, inaudible and untouchable into our realm of the tangible, has greatly expanded the virtual space by making use of augmented and virtual reality. Fifteen audience members at a time are invited into a dark space to roam around, experiencing Weerasethakul’s visual poetry beyond the confines of language, soundscapes of silent waves by Sakamoto Ryuichi, and interactive particles of light floating through the air... They are invited into the depths of memory and existence in a dreamlike world where the origins of life and the afterlife coexist.
Ghost of Asia (2005) [Movie] Douban
Ghost of Asia
director: Christelle Lheureux / 阿彼察邦·韦拉斯哈古 actor: 萨卡达·卡温巴迪
other title: 亚洲幽灵
《亚洲幽灵》是阿彼察邦和克利斯泰(Christelle Lheureux)合作的录像装置作品,以那时发生不久的亚洲海啸为出发点。两位导演决定利用一个在泰国布满岩石的海岸线边游荡的被人发现的幽灵为主线,并且邀请了一些当地的孩子加入这部电影,为饰演幽灵的演员提供灵感,甚至去拍摄。基于幽灵这个介质的各种被激发的灵感,半真实半想象,孩子们的奇妙想法有了真实的载体而得以表达。孩子们的游戏被成年人们的拍摄“游戏”引导。
My Mother’s Garden (2007) [Movie] Douban
My Mother’s Garden
director: 阿彼察邦·韦拉斯哈古 actor: 萨卡达·卡温巴迪 / 金吉拉·潘帕斯
other title: 吾母花园
This film is an impression of a Jewelry collection by Victoire de CASTELLANE. It is also a tribute to a garden of the director’s mother, with wild orchid’s roots, bugs and various organisms.
Worldly Desires (2005) [Movie] Douban
Worldly Desires
6.5 (6 ratings) director: 阿彼察邦·韦拉斯哈古
other title: 七情六欲
一群逃离家庭来到丛林中寻找灵魂树的追寻者们,晚上他们唱起了一首歌,关于纯洁的爱和追求幸福的歌。这是一部实验电影,导演邀请了他的朋友Pimpaka Towira白天拍摄爱情故事,晚上则拍摄这首歌。
Empire (2010) [Movie] Douban
Empire
6.6 (7 ratings) director: 阿彼察邦·韦拉斯哈古
other title: 帝国
'Empire' was the trailer for the Viennale 2010 and screened in over one hundred cinemas in Austria and during the festival in Vienna.
Sakda (2012) [Movie] Douban
director: 阿彼察邦·韦拉斯哈古 actor: 萨卡达·卡温巴迪
other title: Sakda (Rousseau)
In semi-obscurity, we hear a few chords on the guitar, a man whispering into a microphone then into a recording device on the Mekong river bank, that will relay his voice…
Haiku (2009) [Movie] Douban TMDB
Haiku
5.0 (6 ratings) director: 阿彼察邦·韦拉斯哈古
other title: 俳句
在《俳句》中,阿彼察邦记录了在纳布亚进行的庞大项目 " 原始 ",特别是一些被催眠的青年睡在一个时间机器中的场景。此件作品曾于 2016 年在英国伦敦泰特现代美术馆“阿彼察邦·韦拉斯哈古之夜“,日本东京都写真美术馆以及开始于同年的全球巡回个展“狂中之静”中展出。
The Adventure of Iron Pussy (2003) [Movie] Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
หัวใจทรนง
other title: 铁鸡谍网种情花 / หัวใจทรนง
A gang of local thugs come in and start roughing up the customers and get abusive with the daughter. Suddenly, an elaborately coifed and tastefully dressed woman shows up and rescues the young woman and her father from further harm. This is Iron Pussy.
Phantoms of Nabua (2009) [Movie] Douban TMDB
Phantoms of Nabua
8.0 (15 ratings) director: 阿彼察邦·韦拉斯哈古 actor: Phetmongkol Chantawong / Kumgieng Jittamaat
other title: 纳布亚魅影 / ผีนาบัว
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 flashes of light reveal the surroundings, then the ground with smoke, dust, and silence.
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
other title: 给布米叔叔的信 / 엉클 분미께 보내는 편지
A few years ago I visited a temple near my home and a monk there gave me a little book called “A Man Who Can Recall His Past Lives.” In it, the monk wrote about Boonmee, who could recall his multiple lives in the cities of the northeast. In 2008, I wrote a screenplay inspired by the reincarnation of Boonmee, and started to travel in the region in search of his surviving offspring and relatives. I met his two sons who provided accounts of their father.
In Nabua in December 2008, I located several houses that I thought would be suitable as Uncle Boonmee’s house in the proposed feature film. This short film is a personal letter describing my Nabua to Uncle Boonmee.
The film is comprised of shots of the houses’ interiors in the evening. They are all deserted except one house with a group of young soldiers, played by some teens of Nabua. Two of them impersonate me by narrating the film.
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul