| Biography: | (artist biography as of 2006)
Born 1970, Bangkok. Thailand
Feature films (selected prizes)
Syndromes and a Century, 2006
Tropical Malady. 2004, Prix du Jury,
Cannes Film Festival Cannes, France;
Critics' Award São Paulo International
Film Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
The Adventure of Iron Pussy, 2003
Blissfully Yours 2002, Le Prix Un Certain
Regard, Cannes Film Festival, Cannes,
France. 2002; The International Critics
Award (FIPRESCI Prize), Buenos Aires
Film Festival 2003, Buenos Aires,
Argentina; Silver Screen Award: Young
Cinema Award, Singapore International
Film Festival 2003
Mysterious Object at Noon
(documentary), 2000
Selected shorts
Ghost of Asia, 2005, collaborate with
Christelle Lheureux
Worldly Desires, 2005, South Korea
It is Possible That Only Your Heart is
Not Enough to Find You a True Love,
2004, South Korea
This and Million More Lights, 2003, for
Nelson Mandela Foundation, South Africa
Golden Ship, 2002, Musea Brugge,
Bruges, Belgium, and Opera City
Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Second Love in Hong Kong, 2002,
collaboration with Christelle Lheureux
I was Sketching, 2001, segment of multi-
projection narratives, ICC, Sapporo, Japan
Masumi is a PC Operator/Fumiyo is a
Designer, 2001
Haunted Houses: Swan's Blood, 2001,
collaboration with Masahito Araki
Haunted Houses, 2001, Istanbul
Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey
Boys at Noon, 2000
Malee and the Boy, 1999
The Lungara Eating Jell-O/World Artists
for Tibet Exhibition, 1998
thirdworld, 1997
Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding
Waves, 1995
Kitchen and Bedroom, 1994
Selected exhibitions
La force de I'art, 2006, Bernard Marcade,
Grand Palais, France
Wonderbox, 2005. 11 e Biennale de
I'image en Mouvement, Geneva,
Switzerland
Baltic Triennial, 2005, Vilnius. Lithuania
Eindhovenlstanbul, 2005, Van
Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The
Netherlands
Politics of Fun, 2005, Haus der Kulturen
der Welt, Berlin, Germany
KunstenFESTIVALdesArts, 2005,
Brussels. Belgium
Insomnia 48, 2004, Singapore
Taipei Biennial, 2004. Taipei, Taiwan
Busan Biennial, 2004, Busan, South
Korea
MixMax, 2004, Artsonje Centre, Seoul,
South Korea
Kwangju Biennale, 2002, under Project
304 space. Gwangju, South Korea
traversée, 2001, Musee d'Art moderne
de la ville de Paris Paris, France
Tirana Biennale, 2001, Tirana, Albania
Istanbul Biennial. 2001, Istanbul, Turkey
Cities on the Move, 1999, 'Film Cities',
Thailand
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| | | Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | | Date of source: | 2006 |
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| | Description: | Apichatpong Weerasethakul's films are
like open architecture which exists
between fiction and reality, fantasies and
memories, and in which the inhabitants
(professional and non-professional
actors) participate in creating and
portraying the characters as well as in
determining the structure of the films
themselves.
Even the audience is invited to fill in the
voids constructed as the films' endless
points of departure and return. The
collaborative filming process blends a
range of Thai cinema and entertainment
genres, including documentary, sci-fi,
soap operas and chat-shows, and
results in dialogue fragments and
storylines which are as fascinating as
they are enigmatic.
Often set in villages and jungles of the
artist's homeland, the works suggest the
chaotic and dystopian characteristics of
our time, in which narratives and
identities as well as actions constantly
confront the ruptures and turbulent
uncertainties of wider society.
In addition to feature films, which have
won several prizes in major film festivals,
the artist/ director shows his short films,
video works and installations in
contemporary art exhibitions.
Free and often abstract and
experimental, these works are sketches
and studies of concepts to be explored
and developed. Usually produced by
Weerasethakul without others'
involvement, they reveal the original
motifs and perspectives at the heart of
his work.
Manray Hsu
| | Description Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | Description Source Date: | 2006 | | Gender: | male | | Type: | person |
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