Movies: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- 2009
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009)
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A filmmaker captures images that characterize the violence and repression as well as the hope of rebirth and remembrance in northeastern Thailand....
- 1969
Untitled Apichatpong Weerasethakul Dreams Project (1969)
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Described as being based on Weerasethakul's dreams....
- 2005
Worldly Desires (2005)
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One of three films commissioned by the Jeonju International Film Festival in 2005. A couple escaped their family to look for a spiritual tree in the jungle. There is a song at night, a song that spoke about an innocent idea of love and a quest for h...
- 2005
The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005 (2005)
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Three digital short films: 'Worldly Desires' by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 'Haze' by Tsukamoto Shinya, 'Magician(s)' by Song Il-Gon...
- 2017
Railway Sleepers (2017)
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The first railway line in Thailand was inaugurated in 1893 – a sign of progress and prosperity. Shot over eight years on every active line of the country's railway system, this wondrous documentary offers an unprecedented immersion into the country's...
- 2020
Decameron (2020)
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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 ...
- 2018
Home (2018)
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- 2000
Boys at Noon (2000)
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Mock documentary following the escapades of three teenagers on an afternoon jaunt....
- 2022
Three Rocks (2022)
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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...
- 1999
Thirdworld (1999)
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A depiction of the landscape, both metaphorically and realistically, of Panyi island. Some footage in the film was taken from the material shot for Mysterious Object at Noon...
- 2014
Father (2014)
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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...
- 2023
Solarium (2023)
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Produced for the Thailand Biennale, Chiang Rai, (2023), « Solarium » was inspired by a 1981 horror film, « The Sunken-Eyed Ghost », by Thai director Komarachun. This installation places the public in the mindset of the protagonist, a ghost seeking hi...
- 2020
2020 (2020)
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Short for his website, kickthemachine....
- 2022
Sleep Song (2022)
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"A ghost band only plays at night and in dreams. Tilda and Sam are carried away by their song as they practice birth and death in the realm of no time." (Weerasethakul)...
- 2023
Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933) (2023)
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Lost cinema. Lost culture. Lost country. Lost people. How to recreate the past with nothing? Cinema of the impossible. The silent past is a horror film. The smell of nitrate in the morning. How many ghosts can the cinema contain? 75 films. 22 years. ...
- 2018
Fiction (2018)
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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 ...
- 2007
The State of the World (2007)
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An omnibus project examining, well, the state of the world....
- 2022
On Blue (2022)
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A short film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul in collaboration with composer Rafiq Bhatia and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra....
- 2013
One Water (2013)
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Tilda Swinton, a British actress and friend of Weerasethkul, organized Film on the Rocks, a film festival in the Maldives where she invited the artist to take part in the project. While he was with her, Weerasethakul asked Swinton to recall her dream...
- 2016
Invisibility (2016)
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Invisibility displays Weerasethakul’s continued interest in the issue of perception and memory. The installation takes threads from his recent films, Cemetery of Splendor and Fever Room, both of which feature the same actors. Here, he takes them deep...