Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema of Now
Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Cinema of Now
March 10–May 12, 2023
Apichatpong Weerasethakul presents several programs and the Townsend Center for the Humanities’s Una’s Lecture during this retrospective of the artist’s haunting, beautiful, and resonant works.
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
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Syndromes and a Century
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Tropical Malady
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Memoria
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Cemetery of Splendor
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Films - Past
Films - Past
Events
Past Films
Cemetery of Splendor
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
France, United Kingdom, Germany, Malaysia, Thailand, 2015Friday, March 10 7 PMView DetailsA strange sleeping sickness befalls a group of soldiers in Weerasethakul’s mesmeric treatise on dreams, history, and magical thinking. “Cinema as the stuff dreams are made of” (Slant Magazine). With The Anthem.
Mysterious Object at Noon
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Thailand, 2000Thursday, March 23 7 PMView DetailsA film crew heads from Bangkok to the hinterlands of Thailand, asking people to continue improvising a story in this bewitching relocation of the surrealist exquisite corpse game. “Rarely has a first feature been more aptly titled” (Dennis Lim). With Worldly Desires.
Tropical Malady
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Thailand, France, Germany, Italy, 2004Thursday, March 30 7 PMView DetailsThis shape-shifting blend of modern romance and mystic parable ventures deep into the Thai jungle of myth. “A work of outstanding originality and power” (Sight & Sound).
Memoria
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Colombia, Mexico, France, United Kingdom, Thailand, Germany, China, Switzerland, 2021BAMPFA Student Committee PickMemoria also screens Friday, May 5 (without Apichatpong Weerasethakul in person).
Thursday, April 6 7 PMApichatpong Weerasethakul in PersonView DetailsSet in Colombia and starring Tilda Swinton, Weerasethakul’s first feature film made outside of Thailand covers familiar thematic terrain for the veteran director in its exploration of the blurred boundaries between the natural world and spirit realm, and the way that collective traumas reemerge as memories and dreams.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Masterclass
Friday, April 7 3 PMApichatpong Weerasethakul and Leila Weefur in ConversationView DetailsApichatpong Weerasethakul addresses his approach to making moving images for both the cinema and installations and alternative screening spaces.
Syndromes and a Century
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Thailand, France, Austria, 2006Saturday, April 8 7 PMApichatpong Weerasethakul and Arnika Fuhrmann in ConversationView DetailsInspired by the recollections of his doctor parents, Weerasethakul fashioned this gorgeous portrait of love and remembrance, mirrored in both the countryside and the city. “Profoundly mysterious, erotic, funny, gentle, playful, and utterly distinctive” (Guardian).
Blissfully Yours
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
Thailand, 2002Sunday, April 9 3 PMApichatpong Weerasethakul and Jean Ma in ConversationView DetailsYoung lovers travel to the verdant jungle seeking respite from everyday anguish in “a delicate, ethereal dream of a film” (New York Times).
Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Una’s Lecture
Tuesday, April 11 5:10 PMApichatpong Weerasethakul and Hilton Als in ConversationView DetailsFor the Townsend Center for the Humanities’s Una’s Lecture, Apichatpong Weerasethakul appears in conversation with Hilton Als, who inquires into his career arc, filmmaking practice, and the particular political challenges involved in making film in his native Thailand. With Len Lye’s Free Radicals, Bruce Baillie’s Valentin de las Sierras, and Weerasethakul’s Ablaze.
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Thailand, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Spain, Netherlands, 2010Wednesday, April 26 7 PMView DetailsThis Palme d’Or winner melds the last dying encounters of a farmer, Boonmee, with a gorgeously rendered landscape enlivened by the presence of ghostly apparitions. This is not magical realism, but realistic magic.
The Adventure of Iron Pussy
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Michael Shaowanasai
Thailand, 2003Saturday, April 29 7 PMView DetailsWeerasethakul teamed up with performance artist (and San Francisco Art Institute graduate) Michael Shaowanasai for this outrageous genre-and gender-bending musical Western, which follows the exploits of a glamorous transvestite secret agent.
Memoria
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Colombia, Mexico, France, United Kingdom, Thailand, Germany, China, Switzerland, 2021BAMPFA Student Committee PickMemoria also screens Thursday, April 6 (with Apichatpong Weerasethakul in person).
Friday, May 5 7 PMView DetailsSet in Colombia and starring Tilda Swinton, Weerasethakul’s first feature film made outside of Thailand covers familiar thematic terrain for the veteran director in its exploration of the blurred boundaries between the natural world and spirit realm, and the way that collective traumas reemerge as memories and dreams.
Mekong Hotel
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Thailand, United Kingdom, France, 2012Wednesday, May 10 7 PMView DetailsThe Cannes-winning director of Tropical Malady returns with another mystical, magical blend of documentary, narrative, and fable, set in the crumbling Mekong Hotel, near the Thai/Laos border. With Ashes, Blue, La Punta, and Night Colonies.
Cemetery of Splendor
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
France, United Kingdom, Germany, Malaysia, Thailand, 2015Friday, May 12 7 PMView DetailsA strange sleeping sickness befalls a group of soldiers in Weerasethakul’s mesmeric treatise on dreams, history, and magical thinking. “Cinema as the stuff dreams are made of” (Slant Magazine). With The Anthem.