Shorts Program 4: Vapour Lights
The World of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
May 4 - 16, 2023
This program includes This and a Million More Lights (2003), Malee and the Boy (1999), Nokia Short (2003), Vapour (2015), Ablaze (2016), and Mekong Hotel (2012).
This and a Million More Lights
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2003, Thailand, 1m
Strobing light fragments scenes from a public swimming pool.
Malee and the Boy
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 1999, Thailand, 27m
A meditation on image and sound in which a 10-year-old boy wanders around Bangkok with a microphone in search of sounds to accompany the filmmaker’s footage.
Nokia Short
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2003, Thailand, 2m
A test with the integrated camera of a Nokia cell phone.
Vapour
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2015, Thailand, 21m
A vast cloud of fog settles upon Toongha in Thailand, engulfing the entire village in an oneiric atmosphere.
Ablaze
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2016, Thailand, 5m
Shadow play takes on a painterly aspect in this study of two figures: a woman and a man who insistently blocks her vision.
Mekong Hotel
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2012, Thailand/U.K., 56m
Set in a hotel on the Mekong River on the border between Thailand and Laos, this mid-length film alternates freely between fiction and documentary and between a pair of young lovers, a vampiric mother and her daughter, and the flow of the river itself.
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