Screening and discussion
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Ghosts, dreams, resistance
04 May 2022
04 May 2022
The event is over
The Centre Pompidou is participating in the first retrospective in France of filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s shorts, videos and feature films, shown as part of the Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin festival held in Paris from 2 to 8 May 2022.
The retrospective includes 27 films divided into four sessions composed by the artist himself and offering an all-new perspective on his work. This session is the second in the retrospective. The themes addressed in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s works include dreams and the invisible, rural life in Thailand in the face of modernity, plus nature and states of consciousness between wakefulness and sleep, to name but a few. Often non-linear, frequently using unconventional narrative structures and disassociation, his works intertwine real and imaginary spaces or ghosts and the living, while subtly addressing social and political questions.
Screening followed by a conversation with Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The conversation will be held remotely and transmitted live (to be confirmed).
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Trailer for CinDi, 2011, col., 2 min
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ashes, 2012, col., 20 min
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Vampire, 2008, col., 19 min
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Haunted Houses, 2001, col., 60 min
With a blank screen that unfurls to the accompaniment of a rich soundscape, Trailer for CinDi allows for a multiplicity of possible projections. Ashes evokes a dream of returning to one's native village against the backdrop of a demonstration against a new law. Vampire is a journey through the jungle in search of a bird that feeds on blood. In Haunted Houses, a world filled with spirits unfolds in parallel to daily life: from village to village, the inhabitants of the area around Khon Kaen, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s native city, relive scenes from a popular Thai TV series word for word.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, né en 1970 en Thaïlande, est cinéaste, artiste visuel, scénariste et producteur, fondateur en 1999 de Kick the Machine, plate-forme de production indépendante pour artistes et cinéastes. Son œuvre cinématographique, dense, comporte plusieurs longs métrages, dont la trilogie composée de Blissfully Yours (premier prix de la section Un certain regard au Festival de Cannes en 2002), Tropical Malady (prix du jury au Festival de Cannes en 2004) et Syndromes and a Century (sélectionné à la Mostra de Venise, 2006), ainsi que Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Palme d’or du Festival de Cannes en 2010) et Cemetery of splendour (sélectionné dans la section Un certain regard au Festival de Cannes, 2015). Son dernier film, Memoria a obtenu le prix du Jury au Festival de Cannes en 2021. L'Institut d'art contemporain de Villeurbanne lui a consacré une exposition monographique en 2021, « Periphery of the Night », dans laquelle la commissaire d’exposition Nathalie Ergino a rassemblé œuvres vidéo, journaux filmés et installations.
Where
Cinema 2, level –1
When
04 May 2022
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Ashes, 2012. Courtesy of the artist
@ D.R.