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A Million More Lights:  Program 3 & 4

Mekong Hotel
October 22, 2016 - 6:30 pm
Billy Wilder Theater
In-person: 
Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Online tickets sold out; standby line only.

Program 3


The short feature Mekong Hotel (2012) is a fascinatingly eccentric work which de- and reconstructs an abandoned ghost story film project, unfolding dreamily as cinematic fiction intertwines with the production process.  Accompanying Mekong Hotel are Malee and the Boy (1999), a formally inventive collaboration with a curious 10-year-old; This and a Million More Lights (2003), director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s entry in the Give 1 Minute of Art to AIDS project; and Ashes (2012), a visually arresting and intimate film shot almost entirely on a 35mm Lomokino camera.

All films presented digitally and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Mekong Hotel  (Thailand/UK, 2012)

Color, 56 min.

Haiku  (2009)

Color, 3 min.

This and a Million More Lights  (2003)

Color, silent, 1 min.

Malee and the Boy  (Thailand, 1999)

Color, 27 min.

La Punta  (2013)

Color, 2 min.

Ashes  (2012)

Color, 20 min.


Total running time of Program 3:  approx. 104 min.

Program 4


This program brings together a number of director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s more experimental short works, including two of his early projects from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  Following The Anthem (2006), a fabulous “purification service” to bless the theater, five other remarkable films explore the deep seduction of the recorded image and the narrativization of our worldly experiences.

All films presented digitally and directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

The Anthem  (Thailand/UK, 2006)

Color, 5 min.  CAST: Donruedee Chana, Garuna Luktoomtong, Jenjira Pongpas.

Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves  (Thailand/U.S., 1994)

B/w, 23 min.  CAST: Piyaporn Tananupappisal, Juthamanee Tananupappisal, Noppadol Tungsakul.

Windows  (Thailand, 1999)

Color, silent, 12 min.

Thirdworld  (Goh Gayasit)  (Thailand/U.S., 1997)

B/w, 17 min.  CAST: Chumnan Boonyaputhipong, Paisit Phanpruksachat, Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Cactus River  (Khong Lang Nam)  (2012)

B/w & color, 10 min.

Worldly Desires  (Thailand/South Korea, 2005)

Color, 43 min.


Total running time of Program 3:  approx 110 min.

Part of: 
A Million More Lights: The Short Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul