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Fireworks (Archives)
THAILAND · 2014

Fireworks (Archives)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
temple sculpture concrete art spiritual spaces visual revelation nocturnal exploration
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Synopsis

This film depicts Bunleua Sulilat’s temple/sculpture garden 'Sala Keoku', located in northern Thailand. Passages of blackness sporadically dissolve under the fitful internal illumination of sparklers, which light up to reveal Sulilat’s unorthodox temple populated with a fantastical concrete menagerie of beasts and figures; the sculptures range from the broad, whale-like contours of a frog’s face,

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