Apichatpong Weerasethakul

9 Temples to Heaven (2026)

A family of 9 takes their grandmother on a merit-making trip to 9 temples in 1 day, hoping to prolong her life. But the trip takes an unexpected turn. ...

The Cowboy (2024)

The arrival of a stray horse triggers a series of events in Bernicia's life that alters her world as she slowly takes on the persona of a cowboy. Through her journey, she must overcome several obstacles that threaten her newfound desires. ...

The Cowboy (2024)

The arrival of a stray horse triggers a series of events in Bernicia's life that alters her world as she slowly takes on the persona of a cowboy. Through her journey, she must overcome several obstacles that threaten her newfound desires. ...

Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933) (2023)

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. What i ...

On Blue (2022)

A short film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul in collaboration with composer Rafiq Bhatia and the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra. ...

Durmiente (2022)

Durmiente shows Tilda Swinton, the lead actress of Memoria, sleeping in a bedroom as the shadows grow longer. ...

For Bruce (2022)

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 the act ...

A Conversation with the Sun (Installation) (2022)

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 filmmaking ...

Memoria (2021)

After hearing a loud 'bang' at daybreak, a Scottish woman begins experiencing a mysterious sensory syndrome while traversing the jungles of Colombia. ...

The Year of the Everlasting Storm (2021)

Featuring seven stories from seven auteurs from around the world, the film chronicles this unprecedented moment in time, and is a true love letter to the power of cinema and its storytellers. ...

Night Colonies (2021)

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

Sarit (2021)

The bas-relief represents Sarit Thanarat, former Thai prime minister who ruled Thailand in the early 1960s. This wall is also located next to a statue of Sarit, in the city of Khon Kaen, where Apichatpong Weerasethakul grew up. The artist represented Sarit ...

Flowers & Banana Wind (2020)

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

October Rumbles (2020)

The acclaimed filmmaker has created an original short film in response to the global pandemic, titled October Rumbles. ...

Cinetracts '20 (2020)

A global portrait documenting the year's events, Cinetracts '20 features the work of an international lineup of 20 filmmakers. Capturing the zeitgeist in their own backyard, the artists' short films are the culmination of a year-long residency project. ...

Decameron (2020)

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 and th ...

30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing (2019)

Over 30 filmmakers and friends of Strand Releasing have come together to honor the company's indelible contribution to independent cinema over the past thirty years. The participating filmmakers have each created a short film for the project, all shot on i ...

Strands (2019)

Hale County This Morning, This Evening (2018)

Composed of intimate and unencumbered moments of people in a community, this film is constructed in a form that allows the viewer an emotive impression of the Historic South - trumpeting the beauty of life and consequences of the social construction of rac ...

Blue (2018)

A woman lies awake at night. Nearby, a set of theatre backdrops unspools itself, unveiling two alternate landscapes. Upon the woman's blue sheet, a flicker of light reflects and illuminates her realm of insomnia. ...

Fiction (2018)

"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 floor ...

Ten Years Thailand (2018)

A collection of short films by five Thai directors imagining their country ten years into the future. ...

Jenjira, Brother Triam (2018)

For over 20 years, Werasethakul has worked with the same crew and actors. In this video, he asks two of his close collaborators to recount and perform their dreams for the camera. Here Jenjira shares a childhood dream in with her deceased brother reappears ...

Sakda, Somchai (2018)

Sakda Kaewbuadee (Tong) describes a dream in which he and his friend Somchai are in room filled with massive collection of books. ...

Home (2018)

Memoria, Boy at Sea (2017)

The work is part of the Memoria Project, the first major series of work that is set outside of Weerasethakul's home country. Given his affinity for the Amazon, of which Thai jungle tales were originally inspired, Weerasethakul has started to explore South ...

async - first light (2017)

A collaboration between Apichatpong and Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto from his album "async". The people falling asleep in this film are all his friends, he sent cameras to friends and asked them to shoot. Apichatpong often carries Digital Harinezumi ...

Railway Sleepers (2017)

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 pas ...

Ablaze (2016)

ABLAZE premiered at the 27th Singapore Film Festival, November 24, 2016 ...

Art Through Our Eyes (2016)

As an omnibus of short films, Art Through Our Eyes is inspired by the art collection found at the National Gallery Singapore. Each of the five directors – Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Brillante Mendoza, Eric Khoo, Ho Yuhang and Joko Anwar – handpicked a ...

The Parrot (2016)

A stranger arrives in Sarajevo and barges into Damir's reclusive world. Little by little she takes over his life. She absorbs his dreams, until finally she threaten his very existence. ...

Invisibility (2016)

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 deeper int ...

Fan Dog (2016)

For a Fiery Monkey Year. ...

Fever Room (2015)

"Fever Room" features Jenjira (Jen) and Banlop (Itt), two of Apichatpong's regular actors who also appear in his film, "Cemetery of Splendour". Like the film, this projection-performance presents the layers of reality and fantasy. Apichatpong fuses his mem ...

Vapour (2015)

The clouds descend onto a village and engulf it for a day. They touch the roof tiles, the beds, the chairs, the carpets, the grass, and the bodies, infecting everything with the fever of white stupor. ...

Cemetery of Splendor (2015)

In a hospital, ten soldiers are being treated for a mysterious sleeping sickness. In a story in which dreams can be experienced by others, and in which goddesses can sit casually with mortals, a nurse learns the reason why the patients will never be cured, ...

Short Plays (2014)

Football seen through the eyes of some of the best directors of the world. ...

Fireworks (Archives) (2014)

This film depicts Bunleua Sulilat's temple/sculpture garden 'Sala Keoku', located in northern Thailand. Passages of blackness sporadically dissolve under the fitful internal illumination of sparklers, which light up to reveal Sulilat's unorthodox temple po ...

Father (2014)

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 Boonmee W ...

Fireworks Sketch (2014)

This film is a study for "Fireworks (Archives)", a fiction set at night-time amng the animal scultures at Wat Sala Kaew Ku Sculture Park. For Weerasethakul, these scultures represent a form of rebellion against tical oppression and the harshness of daily l ...

For Monkeys Only (2014)

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Concrete Clouds (2013)

Amidst the post-economic crash, a man must return from abroad after his father committed suicide. After return home, he must confront his past and struggle to hold on to his present. ...

Venice 70: Future Reloaded (2013)

Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 60 and 90 seconds long on their interpretation of the future of cinema. ...

Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded, Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2013)

A short film made for "Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded". A car being driven during a downpour. ...

One Water (2013)

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 dreams in f ...

Dilbar (2013)

Commissioned by The Sharjah Art Foundation ...

Blue Propeller (2013)

Blue Propeller is made to be shown with One Water. The fingernails were painted the color of the sky and the sea. But the sky was grey. The nail color instead matched the plane engine's blue. ...

Cactus River (2012)

A diary of the time Apichatpong Weerasethakul visited a newlywed couple near the Mekong River. ...

Sakda (Rousseau) (2012)

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. ...

Mekong Hotel (2012)

Shifting between fact and fiction in a hotel situated along the Mekong River, a filmmaker rehearses a movie expressing the bonds between a vampire-like mother and daughter. ...

20 Little Films (2012)

Since 1995, the Viennale has invited renowned directors to create short, one-minute films as personal contributions to the festival. Ranging from home movies to political essays, musical sketches to abstract studies, these "little films" form a unique anth ...

Quattro Hong Kong 2 (2011)

Four short tales set in contemporary Hong Kong. ...

3.11 A Sense of Home Films (2011)

In memory of the Japanese earthquake on 3.11, each director presents a 3 minute and 11 second short film in tribute to those who were lost that day. ...

Monsoon (2011)

Made for 3.11 A Sense of Home Films project, organised by the Nara IFF Organising Committee. ...

Trailer for CinDi (2011)

The official trailer for the 2011 CinDi FIlm Festival. An intimate choreography blurs the boundaries between stage curtain and screen. ...

M Hotel (2011)

a film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul ...

Empire (2010)

Initially a deep-sea diver is shown exploring a cave. Then a hand as shown handling a gastropod shell. ...

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)

Suffering from acute kidney failure, Boonmee has chosen to spend his final days surrounded by his loved ones in the countryside. Surprisingly, the ghost of his deceased wife appears to care for him, and his long lost son returns home in a non-human form. C ...

Reincarnate (2010)

A teacher and his student go on a trip to a magical island where there is urban life and tourist attractions as well as a palace and temples. Moreover, a haunting past still gnaws, spreads, mates and mutates in a loop that cannot be eliminated. It dissolve ...

Phantoms of Nabua (2009)

The story based on the mysterious portrait of the town of Nabua in northeastern Thailand. Soon after nightfall when the crepuscular violets concede to blackness, the wind's rustling intensifies and the boys come out to play. ...

Making of the Spaceship (2009)

The working men, the animals, and the rain orchestrated this silent video portraying a month-long, spaceship-making process. ...

A Dedicated Machine (2009)

Nabua's spaceship as an ideally manufactured vessel slowly lifts off from the ground and flutters in the air for a moment. Then it moves back down to the earth. This loop portrays a never-really-taking-off spaceship. ...

Nabua (2009)

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 o ...

A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009)

A filmmaker captures images that characterize the violence and repression as well as the hope of rebirth and remembrance in northeastern Thailand. ...

An Evening Shoot (2009)

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 being sh ...

Nabua Song (2009)

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, whos ...

Primitive (2009)

A series of short films in which the history of the Thai border town of Nabua is re-imagined as an elusive science fiction ghost story rooted in Thai folklore. ...

I'm Still Breathing (2009)

A Thai band, Modern Dog, was invited to Nabua for the making of a music video for one of their songs, I'm Still Breathing. The teens are together in the village street and start to run, some of them kicking the smoking balls and throwing them into the movi ...

Stories on Human Rights (2008)

20 short films about human rights. ...

Mobile Men (2008)

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. ...

Diseases and a Hundred Year Period (2008)

Diseases and a Hundred Year Period is a film-tract that comes to us from Thailand. It is directed by Sompot Chidgasornpongse, Weerasethakul's assistant on several of his films (including Syndromes and a Century), in reaction to the censorship of Syndromes ...

Vampire (2008)

A film crew go in search of Nok Phii - a rare bird which feeds on the blood of other creatures. ...

Prosperity for 2008 (2008)

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

The Palace (Pipittan Tee Taipei) (2008)

There is a room at a Palace Museum that is filled with spirits. It accommodates countless of memories spanning several centuries. The room has observed the artifacts, the faces, the sounds, and the moving images. The room itself is a moving image, a moving ...

Meteorites (2007)

Made for 'Short Films for the King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 80th Birthday', 2007. ...

Emerald (2007)

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. ...

The State of the World (2007)

Six directors, six independent films, six visions on the state of the world. Each carrying a unique and personal interpretation of a specific experience, their crossover creates new space for a dynamic and radical inquisitive reflection. ...

Luminous People (2007)

A recreation of an event to commemorate the presence of the dead and the decayed memories of the living, of filmmaking ...

My Mother’s Garden (2007)

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 mother's g ...

Teem (2007)

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 until Febr ...

The Anthem (2006)

One of the ingrained rituals in Thai society is the blessing automatically given before certain ceremonies and events such as the playing of the Royal Anthem in movie theaters before feature presentations. This short presents a "Cinema Anthem" which comica ...

Syndromes and a Century (2006)

A story about director Apichatpong Weerasethakul's parents who were both doctors, and his memories of growing up in a hospital environment. ...

Ghost of Asia (2005)

Taking the recent tsunami in Asia as its starting point, the filmmakers have used the idea of a ghost seen wandering along the rocky coastline of a Thai island and, in a life-affirming gesture, they have invited some local children to direct the film for t ...

Worldly Desires (2005)

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 happine ...

The Desire of the World: Jeonju Digital Project 2005 (2005)

Three digital short films: 'Worldly Desires' by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 'Haze' by Tsukamoto Shinya, 'Magician(s)' by Song Il-Gon ...

Tropical Malady (2004)

The passionate relationship between two men with unusual consequences. The film is divided in two parts. The first half charts the modest attraction between two men in the sunny, relaxing countryside and the second half charts the confusion and terror of a ...

The Adventure of Iron Pussy (2004)

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. ...

TON (2004)

Before Weerasethakul makes a new feature film, he conducts thorough research related to the topic of his interest. For his feature film, Tropical Malady, Apichatpong asked his colleague Ton to visit the army in the Kaeng Krachan Dam area to study the lives ...

This and a Million More Lights (2003)

One of several one-minute artists' videos made for the Nelson Mandela Foundation's 46664: Give 1 Minute of Art to AIDS campaign. A strobing fluorescent light inter-cuts scenes from an urban swimming pool; a young boy tempts the water. ...

Nokia Short (2003)

A short film made with a mobile phone, commissioned by Nokia as part of the promotion of the first model of a cellular phone with a built-in camera. ...

Blissfully Yours (2002)

Min is an illegal Burmese immigrant living in Thailand who has contracted a mysterious painful rash covering his upper body. His girlfriend, Roong, and a middle-aged woman, Orn, take him to see a doctor. Min pretends that he cannot speak because he is not ...

I-San Special (2002)

The soundtrack to a radio soap opera set in a luxury hotel is acted out by characters who are riding a ramshackle bus from Bangkok to a small town in Thailand's Northeast. ...

Second Love in Hong Kong (2002)

Second Love in Hong Kong shares a common theme in the art works of Christelle and Apichatpong – a minimalist portrayal of hybrid fiction/non-fiction landscape. Here the filmmakers focus on an imaginary character named Hong (Swan) who travels from Thailan ...

Haunted Houses (2001)

A collaboration with a group of villagers on the periphery of Khon Kaen province in the northeast of Thailand, recording them as they agree to take turns to act scenes scripted from two episodes of the TV series 'Tong Prakaisad', a rags-to-riches TV soap, ...

Father (2001)

Boys at Noon (2000)

Mock documentary following the escapades of three teenagers on an afternoon jaunt. ...

Mysterious Object at Noon (2000)

A camera crew travels through Thailand asking villagers to invent the next chapter of an ever-growing story. ...

Thirdworld (1999)

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. ...

Windows (1999)

Windows is Weerasethakul's first work in video. It is an improvisational piece using little physical movement to capture the "natural phenomena" occurring between the video camera, television screen, and window. ...

Malee and the Boy (1999)

The subject is a 10 year-old boy who is in charge of the microphone. He roams to places around Bangkok to gather sounds for the video. The sound indicates the direction he headed during the filming and displays his point of interests. The filmmaker is in c ...

116643225059 (1994)

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 photograph ...

Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves (1994)

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

Bullet (1993)

Bullet is Weerasethakul's first film, an experimental, silent short that explores light and time. Here, one can see many tropes that continue to be developed throughout the artist's career. ...

Uncertain Path (2021)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Pedro Costa, Manoel de Oliveira y and the film's director, with their own personal views, share that thin line that links life with cinema. ...

A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (2018)

Canadian actor and filmmaker Connor Jessup (Closet Monster, Falling Skies) profiles Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a maverick of Thai cinema who explores the slippery nature of time and consciousness with a sublimely idiosyncratic, often surreal approach to f ...

Wiara (2018)

Six authorities of cinema describe their approach to transcendence, mysticism, spirituality and life after dead. ...

Cinema Futures (2016)

Analog celluloid strips are disappearing. Is film dying, or just changing? Are the world's film archives on the brink of a dark age? Renowned filmmakers, museum curators, historians, and engineers help dramatize the future of film and the cinema in the age ...

The Legend of the Palme d'Or (2015)

From Martin Scorsese to Jane Campion, from Emir Kusturica to Quentin Tarantino, some of the greatest recipients of this trophy recall special moments relating to the award ceremony which closes the Cannes Film Festival. This film brings to light moving and ...

Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema (2014)

With Taiwan remaining in the grip of martial law in 1982, a group of filmmakers from that country set out to establish a cultural identity through cinema and to share it with the world. This engaging documentary looks at the movement's legacy. ...

Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA (2014)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's solo exhibition "PHOTOPHOBIA" is held commemorating the 5th anniversary of the opening of Kyoto City University of Arts Art Gallery @KCUA. ...

Past Present (2013)

A contemplative trip down memory lane with one of the leading voices of the Second New Wave of Taiwanese Cinema. Saw Tiong Guan clearly established a very personal bond with his subject, and also found many of Tsai Ming-liang's colleagues prepared to compl ...

Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer (2012)

Prominent film critic Tony Rayns has long been a supporter of Korean cinema. This film illustrates Rayns' affection for Korean cinema through interviews of Korean cineastes that have a special affinity for him, including JANG Sun-woo, LEE Chang-dong and HO ...

Mekong Hotel (2012)

Shifting between fact and fiction in a hotel situated along the Mekong River, a filmmaker rehearses a movie expressing the bonds between a vampire-like mother and daughter. ...

Behind the Blur (2009)

An insightful documentary about Thai cinema, which features a colourful and long running film history, yet struggles as the industry attempts to move forward. This film examines the past and focuses on the Thai New Wave since 1997 by combining film clips, ...

Thirdworld (1999)

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. ...

Circulation (1998)

This film is a Movies strip that consists of 365 frames. The actor is actually moving in one direction but appears to swing like a pendulum on the screen. Sporadic booms of the soundtrack reveal the relationship between the human pendulum movement, the rhy ...