Apichatpong Weerasethakul Movies

One of the ingrained rituals in Thai society is the blessing automatically given before certain ceremonies and events such as the playing of the...

A short film made for "Venezia 70 - Future Reloaded."

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

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

Sakda Kaewbuadee (Tong) describes a dream in which he and his friend Somchai find themselves in a room full of a huge book collection.

Single-channel video installation, digital

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

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...

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....

Windows is Weerasethakul’s first work in video. It is an improvisational piece using little physical movement to capture the “natural...

Tilda Swinton, a British actress and friend of Weerasethkul, organized Film on the Rocks, a film festival in the Maldives where she invited the...

A short for his website, Kickthemachine

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...

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

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,...

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...

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...

A group of people is in a boat traveling along Mekong River that stretches along the Thai-Laos border. They are running against the wind,...