Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Directing
- July 16, 1970 · Bangkok, Thailand
Biography
Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a Thai independent film director, screenwriter, and film producer. His feature films include Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, winner of the prestigious 2010 Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or prize; Tropical Malady, which won a jury prize at the 2004 Cannes Film Festival; Blissfully Yours, which won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard program at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival; and Syndromes and a Century, which premiered at the 63rd Venice Film Festival and was the first Thai film to be entered in competition there. Working outside the strict confines of the Thai film studio system, Weerasethakul has directed several features and dozens of short films. Themes reflected in his films (frequently discussed in interviews) include dreams, nature, sexuality (including his own homosexuality), and Western perceptions of Thailand and Asia, and his films display a preference for unconventional narrative structures (like placing titles/credits at the middle of a film) and for working with non-actors.
Known for
Filmography
- 9 Temples to Heaven · Producer
- A Flower of Forgetfulness · Director
- Phantoms · Director
- Le bureau qui avait peur · Self, Director
- January Stories · Director
- The Cowboy · Thanks
- Solarium · Director
- Nitrate: To the Ghosts of the 75 Lost Philippine Silent Films (1912-1933) · Producer
- On Blue · Director
- Durmiente · Director
- For Bruce · Director
- A Conversation with the Sun · Director, Cinematography
- Sleep Song · Director
- Walking · Director
- Action et Réaction · Director
- Three Rocks · Director
- Uncertain Path
- Memoria · Producer, Director
- The Year of the Everlasting Storm · Director
- Night Colonies · Director
- Sarit · Director
- Waterfall · Director
- Flowers & Banana Wind · Director
- 2020 · Director
- October Rumbles · Director
- Cinetracts '20 · Director
- Decameron · Director
- Seeing Circles · Director
- 30/30 Vision: Three Decades of Strand Releasing · Director
- Untitled · Director
- 2019 · Director
- Hale County This Morning, This Evening · Creative Consultant
- Blue · Director, Editing
- Fiction · Director
- Ten Years Thailand · Screenplay, Editing
- A.W. A Portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul · Self
- Wiara · Self
- Sakda, Somchai · Director
- Home · Director
- Jenjira, Brother Triam · Director
- Memoria, Boy at Sea · Director
- async - first light · Director
- Railway Sleepers · Producer
- 2017 · Director
- Ablaze · Director
- Art Through Our Eyes · Director
- Cinema Futures · Self
- The Parrot · Thanks
- Invisibility · Director, Writer
- Fan Dog · Director
- Fever Room · Director
- Vapour · Editing, Director
- Cemetery of Splendor · Director, Producer
- The Legend of the Palme d'Or · Self
- Rolling · Director, Writer
- Flowers of Taipei: Taiwan New Cinema · Self
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul Solo Exhibition - PHOTOPHOBIA · Self
- Short Plays · Director
- Fireworks (Archives) · Director, Camera Operator
- Footprints · Director
- Fireworks Sketch · Director
- For Monkeys Only · Director
- Father · Director
- Past Present · Self
- Concrete Clouds · Producer
- Venice 70: Future Reloaded · Director
- One Water · Director
- Dilbar · Director
- Blue Propeller · Director
- Cactus River · Director, Camera Operator
- Tony Rayns, the Not-So-Distant Observer · Self
- Sakda (Rousseau) · Director
- Mekong Hotel · Self, Director
- Ashes · Writer, Director
- 20 Little Films · Director
- Quattro Hong Kong 2 · Director
- 3.11 A Sense of Home Films · Director
- Monsoon · Idea, Director
- M Hotel · Director
- Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives · Director, Writer