Four short tales set in contemporary Hong Kong.
(voice)
Sufriendo de insuficiencia renal aguda, el tío Boonmee ha decidido pasar sus últimos días rodeado de sus seres queridos en el campo. Sorprendentemente, el fantasma de su esposa fallecida parece cuidar de él, y su hijo perdido regresa a casa en una forma no humana. Contemplando las razones de su enfermedad, Boonmee camina por la jungla con su familia a una cueva misteriosa : el lugar de nacimiento de su primera vida.
Property Master
Sufriendo de insuficiencia renal aguda, el tío Boonmee ha decidido pasar sus últimos días rodeado de sus seres queridos en el campo. Sorprendentemente, el fantasma de su esposa fallecida parece cuidar de él, y su hijo perdido regresa a casa en una forma no humana. Contemplando las razones de su enfermedad, Boonmee camina por la jungla con su familia a una cueva misteriosa : el lugar de nacimiento de su primera vida.
Assistant Art Director
A filmmaker captures images that characterize the violence and repression as well as the hope of rebirth and remembrance in northeastern Thailand.
Property Master
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 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 Thailand.
Producer
A film crew go in search of Nok Phii - a rare bird which feeds on the blood of other creatures.
A film crew go in search of Nok Phii - a rare bird which feeds on the blood of other creatures.
Property Master
Morakot is a derelict and defunct hotel in the heart of Bangkok that opened its doors in the 1980's: a time when Thailand shifted gears into accelerated economic industrialization and a time when Cambodians poured into Thai refugee camps after the invasion of Vietnamese forces. It was a hosting time. Later, when the East Asian financial crisis struck in 1997, these reveries collapsed. Like Kamanita, the unchanged Morakot is a star burdened with (or fueled by) memories. Apichatpong collaborated with his three regular actors, who recounted their dreams, hometown life, bad moments, and love poems, to re-supply the hotel with new memories.
Morakot is a derelict and defunct hotel in the heart of Bangkok that opened its doors in the 1980's: a time when Thailand shifted gears into accelerated economic industrialization and a time when Cambodians poured into Thai refugee camps after the invasion of Vietnamese forces. It was a hosting time. Later, when the East Asian financial crisis struck in 1997, these reveries collapsed. Like Kamanita, the unchanged Morakot is a star burdened with (or fueled by) memories. Apichatpong collaborated with his three regular actors, who recounted their dreams, hometown life, bad moments, and love poems, to re-supply the hotel with new memories.
Koh
A story about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s parents who were both doctors, and his memories of growing up in a hospital environment.
Property Master
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 happiness. Worldly Desires is an experimental project where I invited a filmmaker friend, Pimpaka Towira, to shoot the love story by day and the song by night. The story, Deep Red Bloody Night, was written by my assistant who wanted to reprise a forbidden love story in a more romantic time in the past. I picked a pop song, Will I be Lucky? to convey a sense of guiltless freedom one feels when being hit by love. The video is a little simulation of manners, dedicated to the memories of filmmaking in the jungle during the year 2001-2005. -Apichatpong Weerasethakul
