Apichatpong Weerasethakul Movies

Home is a portrait of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s house in Chiang Mai, during monsoon season.

The original footage in Father was shot in 2003 by Weerasethakul’s brother when their father was undergoing kidney dialysis. Forever stuck in...

Made for 'Short Films for the King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 80th Birthday', 2007.

A short for his website, Kickthemachine

Initially a deep-sea diver is shown exploring a cave. Then a hand as shown handling a gastropod shell.

A joyful shot recorded by Weerasethakul himself and two young men who become acquainted by filming each other in the back of a moving pickup truck....

Canadian actor and filmmaker Connor Jessup (Closet Monster, Falling Skies) profiles Apichatpong Weerasethakul, a maverick of Thai cinema who...

Decameron was shot in lockdown during the Thai monsoon season, in 2020. In a dark room, a woman removes insects from a mosquito net in order to cook...

Lost cinema. Lost culture. Lost country. Lost people. How to recreate the past with nothing? Cinema of the impossible. The silent past is a horror...

The first railway line in Thailand was inaugurated in 1893 – a sign of progress and prosperity. Shot over eight years on every active line of...

The working men, the animals, and the rain orchestrated this silent video portraying a month-long, spaceship-making process.

In this video diary, Weerasethakul documents the set of Primitive Project in Nabua, Thailand, particularly the scene when teenagers are hypnotized...

Commissioned by The Sharjah Art Foundation

Like Kamanita, the unchanged Morakot is a star burdened with (or fueled by) memories. Apichatpong collaborated with his three regular actors, who...

One of the ingrained rituals in Thai society is the blessing automatically given before certain ceremonies and events such as the playing of the...

Short for his website, kickthemachine.

Windows is Weerasethakul’s first work in video. It is an improvisational piece using little physical movement to capture the “natural...

A macro view of the microorganisms that flock to lamps in the darkness.

This film depicts Bunleua Sulilat’s temple/sculpture garden 'Sala Keoku', located in northern Thailand. Passages of blackness sporadically...