Shorts Program 1: Worldly River
The World of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
May 4 - 16, 2023
This program includes The Anthem (2006), La Punta (2013), M Hotel (2011), Emerald (2007), Sakda (Rousseau) (2012), Mobile Men (2008), Cactus River (2012), Cinetracts (2020), Footprints (2014), and Worldy Desires (2005).
The Anthem
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2006, U.K./Thailand, 5m
A film that praises and blesses the theater and the screening to come.
La Punta
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2013, Thailand, 2m
Image and sound take on a contrapuntal relationship amid footage of a drive down a tree-lined road.
M Hotel
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2011, Thailand/Hong Kong, 12m
Two film crew members spend an afternoon taking portraits in a Hong Kong hotel.
Emerald
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2007, Thailand/Japan, 11m
Three actors recount their memories and dreams to bring new life to a defunct hotel.
Sakda (Rousseau)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2012, Switzerland, 5m
A fragmentary essay about reincarnation and boundaries between memory and fantasy.
Mobile Men
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2008, Thailand, 4m
Two young men film each other while driving a pickup truck, dissolving into one another in the process.
Cactus River
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2012, Thailand, 10m
Apichatpong visits one of his actors and her new husband, crafting a diary of the visit and a record of nature’s ebbs and flows.
Cinetracts
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2020, USA, 2m
Produced for an omnibus film on filmmakers’ experience of the COVIDovid-19 pandemic (Cinetracts ’‘20 [2020]), Apichatpong’s contribution indexes a time and a place amid a historically uncertain moment.
Footprints
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2014, Mexico, 6m
Apichatpong’s contribution to an omnibus film on the world’s relationship with soccer draws analogies between the beautiful game and everyday life.
Worldly Desires
Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Pimpaka Towira, 2005, Thailand/South Korea, 43m
This formal experiment follows a couple into the jungle as they look for a supposedly enchanted tree.
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