Memoria (Colombia/Thailand, 2021)
Clichéd orientalist tropes of reincarnations, perceived memories of past actions and guilts exotically revisited and generously hallucinated about, as one lay seriously ill, awaiting their...
Online Lecture by Matthew Hunt on Thai Cinema and Censorship, March 19
After a campaign by the film community protesting against the arbitrary censorship of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Syndromes and a Century, a rating system was introduced to...
Call for Chapters – The Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
One of the several elements with which Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul indulges himself, is the notion of the body—the various adventures and misadventures of bodilyness,...
Ten Years Thailand (Thailand, 2018) [CAAMFest 2019]
Ten Years Thailand opens with George Orwell’s oft used quote, ‘Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past’. Linking...
Cemetery of Splendor (Thailand, 2015)
Cemetery of Splendor, director Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s follow-up to his Palme d’Or-winning Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) and Mekong Hotel (2012), is...
Preview – Earth as History: Moving Images and Ecologies in Southeast Asia, University of Westminster, December 7
A free seminar exploring films and moving image works about Southeast Asia/by Southeast Asian artists as examples of alternative narratives to the Anthropocene – the...
Railway Sleepers (Thailand, 2017)
Shot in trains traveling on every operating railway route in Thailand, Sompot Chidgasornpongse’s documentary, Railway Sleepers, turns an inquisitive eye to the nation’s population, often...
Syndromes and a Century (Thailand, 2006)
When Syndromes and a Century, the fifth feature by art-house wunderkind Apichatpong Weerasethakul, was granted a limited release in his native Thailand following a battle...
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (Thailand, 2010)
Prior to Cannes, critical consensus was more or less that Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives could be dismissed as another trip down...