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A Million More Lights: Program 1 & 2
October 21, 2016 - 7:30 pm
In-person:
Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Program 1
Featuring A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009), the short precursor to director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Palme d’Or winner Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), this program comprises a selection of shorts produced in a wide variety of formats ranging from early mobile phone cameras to super 8 to digital to 35mm, and all seeming to speak in one way or another to the bewitching mystery of unfamiliar spaces and our desire to record and describe the ineffable.
All films presented digitally and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Empire (Thailand/Austria, 2010)
Color, 2 min.
Nokia Short (Thailand, 2003)
Color, 2 min.
M Hotel (2011)
Color, 12 min. CAST: Nitipong Thinthupthai, Chaisiri Jiwarangsan, Chalermrat Kaweewattana.
Luminous People (Thailand/Portugal, 2007)
Color, 15 min. CAST: Sakda Kaewbuadee, Jenjira Pongpas, Nophakraw Ngawvichai.
Monsoon (2011)
Color, 3 min. CAST: Peerapong Chalermyothin, Chaisiri Jiwarangsan.
Vampire (Sud Vikal) (Thailand/France, 2008)
Color, 19 min.
Nimit (Thailand, 2008)
Color, 19 min.
Ghost of Asia (Thailand/France, 2005)
Color, 9 min. SCR: Jantrakansorn Sukkrajang, Sakda Poka, Nantawat Poonpeum. CAST: Sakda Kaewbuadee.
A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009)
Color, 18 min. CAST: Kumgieng Jittamaat, Miti Jittamaat, Phetmongkol Chantawong.
Total running time of Program 1: approx. 99 min.
Program 2
These seven films spanning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s entire filmmaking career explore themes of intimacy, distance and inscribed or mediated memory, often through our relationship to the technologies that connect and enfold us. From the formalist avant-garde approach of 0116643225059 (1994) through the TV recreations of Haunted Houses (2001) to the eerie, atmospheric minimalism of Vapour (2015), these are films which explore activated spaces, often revealing media and technology as both the bridges and distorting lenses through which we see and experience our realities and ourselves.
All films presented digitally and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.
Trailer for CinDi (2011)
Color, 2 min.
0116643225059 (Thailand/U.S., 1994)
B/w, 5 min.
My Mother's Garden (Thailand/France, 2007)
Color, 7 min. SCR: Sakda Kaewbuadee, Jenjira Pongpas.
Sakda (Rousseau) (2012)
Color, in Thai with English subtitles, 6 min. CAST: Sakda Kaewbuadee, Chai Bhatana, Chatchai Suban.
Vapour (Thailand/Korea/China, 2015)
B/w, 21 min.
Haunted Houses (Thailand, 2001)
Color, 60 min. CAST: Toy Luangjan, Suriyon Luangjan, Pratom Buranrom.
Footprints (2014)
Color, 6 min.
Mobile Men (2008)
Color, 3 min. CAST: Jaai Loongsu, Nitipong Thinthupthai.
Morakot (Emerald) (Thailand/Japan, 2007)
Color, 11 min. CAST: Jenjira Pongpas, Sakda Kaewbuadee, Nitipong Thinthupthai.
Total running time of Program 2: approx. 113 min.
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