The Short Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Program 1
Apr 15 - Apr 16, 2008
(Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 1995-2006, various formats, 96 min)
THE ANTHEM (2006, 35mm, 5 min)
Apichatpong adapts the tradition in Thailand of playing a Royal Anthem before all films, proposing his own “Cinema Anthem” that praises and blesses each film screening.
WINDOWS (1999, BETA-SP, 17 min)
The first film Apichatpong shot on video, this improvisation uses slight physical movement to capture natural phenomena through the camera eye’s mechanism.
MALEE AND THE BOY (1999, BETA-SP, 27 min)
Apichatpong collaborated with a 10-year-old boy to create this impression of everyday life in Bangkok which integrates text from a Thai comic book.
LIKE THE RELENTLESS FURY OF THE POUNDING WAVES
(1995, BETA-SP, 30 min)
This impressionistic short film weaves together various location shots, photographs, and the sound of a radio play to depict one hot day in the director’s hometown of Khon Kaen.
THIRDWORLD (1997, BETA-SP, 17 min)
Drawing on the raw quality of 16mm black-and-white film, Apichatpong captures the landscapes and people of the southern Thai island Panya.