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Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Thailand · Bangkok · b. 16 July 1970

The poet of duration and dissolution. His films move through time like ghosts through rooms — languid, associative, haunted by memory and mortality. Cinema as a space where the living and dead coexist, where a gesture or a glance carries the weight of entire lifetimes.

Thematic context drawn from Senses of Cinema. Read the full critical essay →

b. 16 July 1970, Bangkok, Thailand

Juliet of the Spirits has this quality of the subconscious. When I try to represent characters' inner worlds, their dreams or memories, it's not always so clear cut what is real and what is not. This is something I'm exploring in Uncle Boonmee.

On Giulietta degli spiriti  ·  Film Comment
Phantoms 2025
Solarium 2023
Durmiente 2022
Sleep Song 2022
Walking 2022
For Bruce 2022
On Blue 2022
Sarit 2021
Memoria 2021
Waterfall 2021
Decameron 2020
2020 2020
Untitled 2019
2019 2019
Blue 2018
Fiction 2018
Home 2018
2017 2017
Fan Dog 2016
Ablaze 2016
Fever Room 2015
Vapour 2015
Rolling 2015
Footprints 2014
Father 2014
One Water 2013
Dilbar 2013
Ashes 2012
Monsoon 2011
M Hotel 2011
Empire 2010
Haiku 2009
Nabua 2009
Nabua Song 2009
Primitive 2009
Mobile Men 2008
Vampire 2008
Teem 2007
Meteorites 2007
Emerald 2007
The Anthem 2006
TON 2004
Father 2001
Windows 1999
Thirdworld 1999
Bullet 1993