Apichatpong Weerasethakul — Director (76)

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Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves (2003)
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other title: 怒海狂涛
这是一个泰国小镇中炎热的一天,充满神秘的电波划破了天际。人们的生活被广播剧、照片和电影重重围住。这部实验性质的纪录片以一种悠闲的态度审视着声音影像的聚焦点之变化。电波传播到了许多地方,播送着一出广播剧——海洋女神,“她的情人守护着她灵魂所在的船头,而她为了与情人相会,已等待了数个世纪”。

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October Rumbles (2020)
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★ 7.3 9 ratings
other title: 十月低沉作响 / เสียงฟ้าเดือนตุลา
A newly-created commission in conjunction with the Third Realm exhibition, October Rumbles is a poignant response to this time of global crisis, and is accompanied by Apitchatpong’s writing.

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3.11 A Sense of Home (2011)
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河濑直美 / 维克多·艾里斯 … actor: 桃井薰 / 赵涛
other title: 3.11 家的感觉 / 311即景:我们的家(台)
2011年3月11日の東日本大震災を受け、河瀬直美監督が世界の映像作家に呼びかけて実現した短編集。ビクトル・エリセ(スペイン)、ポン・ジュノ(韓国)、ジャ・ジャンクー(中国)、アピチャッポン・ウィーラセタクン(タイ)、パティ・スミス&スティーブン・セブリング(アメリカ)、桃井かおり(日本)ら21人の監督が「A Sense of Home(家という感覚)」をテーマにそれぞれ3分11秒の短編を手がけ、家族や故郷、祖国への思いをつづっていく。 監督: アリエル・ロッター、イサキ・ラクエスタ、アピチャッポン・ウィーラセタクン、ジャ・ジャンクー、カトリーヌ・カドゥ、桃井かおり、百々俊二、ジョナス・メカス、想田和弘、チャオ・イエ、西中拓史、ウィスット・ポンニミット、レスリー・キー、ポン・ジュノ、ソー・ヨン・キム、山崎都世子、モハメド・ナジブ・ラザク、ペドロ・ゴンザレス・ルビオ、パティ・スミス、スティーブン・セブリング、ビクトル・エリセ、河瀬直美

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Ghost of Asia (2005)
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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。

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Worldly Desires (2005)
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★ 6.5 6 ratings
other title: 七情六欲 / 세계의 욕망
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。

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发亮的人们 (2007)
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★ 7.0 8 ratings
other title: Luminous People / 发光的人
一行人坐着一艘船漂流在流经泰国与老挝边境的湄公河上,迎着风前行。在河的中央,女主人将骨灰撒进了河中,灰白色的粉末在河水中消逝。船在两国边境处调转头,船上的人尽力将船划回自己的世界。

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Morakot (2008)
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★ 8.0 9 ratings
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: 绿宝石 / Emerald
In The Pilgrim Kamanita, a Buddhist novel written in 1906 by the Danish writer Karl Gjellerup, the protagonists are reborn as two stars and take centuries to recite their stories to each other, until they no longer exist. 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.

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I'm Still Breathing (2009)
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The teens are together in the village street and start to run, some of them kicking the smoking balls and throwing them into the moving crowd. The video is a celebration of exaltation and the release of tension, echoing Thailand’s political atmosphere.

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Empire (2010)
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★ 6.6 7 ratings
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.

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Cactus River (2012)
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other title: 仙人掌之河 / Khong lang nam …
Since she appeared in my film in 2009, Jenjira Pongpas has changed her name. Like many Thais, she is convinced that the new name will bring her good luck. So Jenjira has become Nach, which means water. Not long after, she was drifting online and encountered a retired soldier, Frank, from Cuba, New Mexico, USA. A few months later they got married and she has officially become Mrs. Nach Widner. The newlyweds found a house near the Mekong River where Nach had grown up. She spends most of her day crocheting baby socks for sale, while he enjoys gardening and watching television (sometimes without the sound because most of the programs are in Thai). Cactus River is a diary of the time I visited the couple—of the various temperaments of the water and the wind. The flow of the two rivers—Nach and the Mekong, activates my memories of the place where I shot several films. Over many years, this woman whose name was once Jenjira has introduced me to this river, her life, its history, and to her belief about its imminent future. She is certain that soon there will be no water in the river due to the upstream constructions of dams in China and Laos. I noticed too, that Jenjira was no more. –Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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Sakda (2012)
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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…

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Teem (2007)
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这支录影拍摄了导演的伙伴Teem的晨间肖像。泰国冬天来临,Teem告诉阿彼察邦他要去冬眠了,直到2008年2月。结果他真的这么做了,这段时间里一直在睡觉。阿彼察邦观察着他,不时用电话搅扰一下Teem的冬眠大计。