LINKS :: Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL

Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL (born 16 July 1970; Bangkok, Thailand) = 39 yold in 2009

5 (feature) films / 4 screenplays (1st film: 1993/latest film: 2009)
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C.C.C. films (strict model in red) : White Malady?; Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives; A Letter to Uncle Boonmee; Mobile Men; Luminous People; Emerald; The Anthem; Syndromes and a Century; Worldly Desires; Tropical Malady; Blissfully Yours; Mysterious Object at Noon; Thirdworld; Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010) 113' part of the installation The Primitive IMDb - Cannes 2010

• Press kit [PDF] | Wikipedia
• Press conference in Cannes [41' video], [MP3]; interview [12' video]
• "Hors d'œuvre" By: Antoine Thirion (Independencia, 13 May 2010) [ENGLISH] [FRENCH]
• "Lo absoluto" by Fernando Ganzo (eLumière.net, May 2010) [SPANISH] [FRENCH]
• "La nuit est rouge" by Antoine Thirion (Independencia, 23 May 2010) [FRENCH]
• "Klassenkampf: Apichatpong Weerasethakul im Gespräch" interview by Alexander Horwath (Cargo, 25 May 2010) MP3 22' [ENGLISH]
• "Ne plus rien reconnaître" by Stéphane Delorme (Cahiers, n°657, Juin 2010) [FRENCH]
• "une conversation avec apichatpong weerasethakul et wallapa mongkolprasert (4 juin 2010)" avec : Christelle Lheureux, Aliosha Herrera, Cyril Neyrat, Raya Martin, Eugenio Renzi et Antoine Thirion (Independencia; été 2010) [THAI] [ENGLISH] [FRENCH] videos 1 (13') - 2 (17') - entracte (4'39") - 3 (11')
• "Uncle Boonmee who can recall his past lives" By: Mariska Graveland (Filmkrant, #325, Oct 2010) [DUTCH]
• "El cielo está sobrevalorado" By: Laura Menédez (Transit, #6; Sept-Oct 2010) [SPANISH]
• "Extraordinary Joe" By: Adrian Martin (Sight and Sound, Dec 2010) 
• "Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" by: Miguel Blanco, Francisco Algarín Navarro, Fernando Ganzo, Miguel García Moisés Granda (Lumière nº4, Nov 2010) video 10'50" [SPANISH] [ENGLISH] 
• "On ne se baigne jamais deux fois dans le même fleuve" by: Mathieu Dupré, Thomas Fioretti, Arthur Mas, Martial Pisani, Antoine Thirion (Independencia, fév 2011) [FRENCH] 

A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009) 17'40" short from installation The Primitive IMDb -

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• "Crónica 3 : La verda es simple" By: Miguel García (elumiere.net, Jul 2009) [SPANISH] [FRENCH]
  
• "Phantoms of Nabua / A Letter to Uncle Boonmee" By: Ed Howard (Only the cinema, 25 May 2010)
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Phantoms of Nabua (2009) 10'40" short from installation The Primitive -

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• Phantoms of Nabua (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand / Germany) By: Michael Sicinski (Academic Hack, Feb 2009)
  
• "Phantoms of Nabua" By: Michael Sicinski (Cargo, 2009) [GERMAN]
  
• Phantoms of Nabua By: CN, AT, ER (Independencia, Jul 2009)
  
• "Crónica 3 : La verda es simple" By: Miguel García (elumiere.net, Jul 2009) [SPANISH] [FRENCH]
• "Phantoms of Nabua / A Letter to Uncle Boonmee" By: Ed Howard (Only the cinema, 25 May 2010)
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Mobile Men (2008) 3'15" segment in Stories on Human Rights IMDb -

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• "Beyond The Frame: Mobile Men" By: Rob Dennis (Vertigo UK, Vol.4 No.3, Spring/Summer 2009)
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Sud Vikal / Vampire (2008) 19' Short Louis Vuitton -

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Unknown Forces (2007) Installation

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• "Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Gallery at RedCat. CalArts, Apr 18-Jun 17" By: Matthew Wilder (Artforum; 2007)
  
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Luminous People (2007) 15'22" segment in O Estado do Mundo IMDb - Cannes 2007

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Morakot / Emerald (2007) 11'50" short -

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The Anthem (2006) 5' Short - Frieze Art Fair 2006

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Sang sattawat / Syndromes and a Century (2006) IMDb - Venice 2006

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• "Syndromes and a century" By: Leo Goldsmith (Not coming to a theatre near you, 27 Sept 2006)
  
• "(Non)Sense Memory" By: J. Hoberman (The Village Voice, 10 April 2007)
  
• "Inside the Beauty of Romance, a Sometimes Mysterious and Illogical Affair" By: A.O.Scott (NYT, 18 Apr 2007)
  
• "Syndromes and a century" By: Daniel Kasman (d+kaz, 18 Apr 2007)
  
• "“New Crowned Hope” films from Asia: Strengths and weaknesses" By: Richard Phillips (WSWS, 10 July 2007)
  
• "Syndromes and A Century. Cinema of Impermanence" By: Kong Rithdee (Criticine, 9 Aug 2007) from the New Crowned Hope catalogue
  
• "Operas for the 21st Century: Mozart’s New Crowned Hope" By: Christoph Huber (cinemascope, #28, 2007?)
  
• "Syndromes and a century" By: J.J. Murphy (j.j. murphy on independent cinema, 6 Oct 2007)
  
• Links By: David Hudson (GreenCine Daily, 11 Apr 2007)
  
• "Syndromes and a century" By: Gareth (gareth's movie diary, 21 Apr 2008)
  
• "Syndromes and a century" By: Nicolas Bouche (Etudes, Jun 2007) [FRENCH]
• "Syndromes and a century" By: Jean Baptiste Morain (Les Inrockuptibles, #602, 12 Jun 2007) [FRENCH]
• "Le charme opère" By: Louis Guichard (Télérama, #2996, 13 Jun 2007) [FRENCH]
• "Souvenirs et médecines douces" By: Jacques Mandelbaum (Le Monde, 13 Jun 2007) [FRENCH]
• "In Loving Memory" By: Tony Rayns (Signt&Sound, Oct 2007)
  
• "Stranger Than Fiction?" By: Keith Griffiths (Filmmaker blog, 12 Mar 2008)
  
• "Syndromes and a century: Thailand's edition or when 'Babette's Feast' meets 'Salo'" By: celinejulie (Limitless Cinema, 14 Apr 2008)
  
• "Dialogue vs. Duplicity: Notes on Syndromes and a Century and I Don't Want To Sleep Alone" By: Ryland Walker Knight (The House Next Door, 18 Jul 2009)
  
• "Syndromes and a Century" By: James Quandt (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "Texte zu Weerasethakul. Eine Sammlung" A collection of texts by Weerasethakul By: Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Cargo, ?) [GERMAN]
  
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Ghost of Asia (2005) 9' Short with Christelle Lheureux IMDb -

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Worldly Desires / Memories to the Jungle 2001-2005 (2005) 42' Short with Pimpaka Towira IMDb -

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Sud pralad / Tropical Malady (2004) IMDb -

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• "Ivres de la jungle" By: Dider Péron (Libération, 19 May 2004) [FRENCH]
• "Course mythologique à travers la jungle à la poursuite d'un homme tigre" By: Jean-François Rauger (Le Monde, 20 May 2004) [FRENCH]
• "Traque chamanique dans la jungle du désir" By: Jacques Mandelbaum (Le Monde, 24 Nov 2004) [FRENCH]
• "La magie opère" By: Louis Guichard (Télérama, #2863, 24 Nov 2004) [FRENCH]
• "Moins on est de fous, mieux on filme" By: Annick Peigné-Giuly (Libération, 25 Apr 2005) [FRENCH]
  
• "Tropical drive, Mulholland Malady" By: Hervé Aubron (Vertigo FR, #27, Mar 2005) [FRENCH]
  
• "Un trou dans le mur" By: Charles de Meaux & Cyril Neyrat (Vertigo FR, #27, Mar 2005) [FRENCH]
• "Tropical Malady" By: James Quandt (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "The Strange Story of a Strange Beast. Receptions in Thailand of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Sat Pralaat" By: Benedict Anderson (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "Texte zu Weerasethakul. Eine Sammlung" A collection of texts by Weerasethakul By: Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Cargo, ?) [GERMAN]
• "The Rupture. A Thai interpreter of Malady explains his split decisions" By: Chuck Stephens (The Village Voice, 21 Jun 2005)
  
• "For those who have seen Tropical Malady" By: Brian Darr (Hell On Frisco Bay, 8 Apr 2007)
  
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46664 / Give 1 Minute of Your Time To AIDS (2003) 1' Short -

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Hua jai tor ra nong / The Adventures of Iron Pussy (2003) IMDb -

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• "The Adventure of Iron Pussy and other collaborations" By: James Quandt (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "Texte zu Weerasethakul. Eine Sammlung" A collection of texts by Weerasethakul By: Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Cargo, ?) [GERMAN]
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Second Love in Hong Kong (2002) Installation with Christelle Lheureux

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Sud sanaeha / Blissfully Yours (2002) IMDb -

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• "Extase thaï" By: Philippe Azoury (Libération, 17 May 2002) [FRENCH]
  
• "Un moment de bonheur arraché à la jungle" By: Thomas Sotinel (Le Monde, 18 May 2002) [FRENCH]
  
• "Apichatpong Weerasethakul, l'endémoniste" By: Brice Pedroletti (Le Monde, 18 May 2002) [FRENCH]
• "Septième ciel" By: Amélie Dubois (Les Inrocks, 9 Oct 2002) [FRENCH]
  
• "Blissfully Yours" By: Louis Guichard (Télérama, #2752, 9 Oct 2002) [FRENCH]
  
• "Sensuellement hypnotique" By: Annie Coperman (Les Echos, 10 Oct 2002) [FRENCH]
• "Si singulier 'Blissfully Yours'" By: Didier Péron (Libération, 19 Oct 2002) [FRENCH]
• "Love in the Afternoon" By: J. Hoberman (The Village Voice, 1 Jun 2004)
  
• "A Sewer Rash, a River in Eden and a Stream of Tears" By: Manohla Dargis (NYT, 24 Sept 2004)
  
• "Une maison dans les bois" By: Catherine Ermakoff (Vertigo FR; #31; 2007) [FRENCH]
  
• "FOCUS: Blissfully Yours. Towards the Wondrous Void" By: Tony Rayns (Vertigo magazine UK, Vol. 3 No. 4, Winter 2007) PDF
  
• "Blissfully Yours" By: James Quandt (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "Texte zu Weerasethakul. Eine Sammlung" A collection of texts by Weerasethakul By: Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Cargo, ?) [GERMAN]
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Haunted Houses Project Thailand (2001) 60' -

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Masumi Is a PC Operator (2001) 6' Short from installation Narratives IMDb -

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Dokfa nai meuman / Mysterious Object at Noon (2000) IMDb -

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• "Un jeu d'enfant" By: Cyril Neyrat (Vertigo FR, #27, Mar 2005) [FRENCH]
  
• "Mysterious Object at Noon" By: James Quandt (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "Texte zu Weerasethakul. Eine Sammlung" A collection of texts by Weerasethakul By: Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Cargo, ?) [GERMAN]
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Boys at Noon (2000) 23' Short IMDb -

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Malee and the Boy (1999) 25' Short IMDb -

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Windows (1999) 17' Short -

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Goh Gayasit / Thirdworld (1997) 17' Short IMDb -

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Mae Ya Nang / Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves (1994) 22'37" Short IMDb -

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0116643225059 (1994) 5' Short IMDb -

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Kitchen and Bedroom (1994) Short IMDb -

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Bullet (1993) Short IMDb -

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GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY

• "Les surprises du cinéma thaï" By: Seno Joko Suyone, Arif Firmansayah, Akmal Nasery Basral (Courrier International, #720, 19 Aug 2004) [FRENCH]
  
• "Sur les traces de Tropical Malady" By: Jean-Marc Lalanne (Les Inrockuptibles, 24 Nov 2004) dossier 8p. [FRENCH]
  
• "Un trou dans le mur. Entretien avec Charles de Meaux" By: Cyril Neyrat (Vertigo FR, #24, 5 Dec 2004) PDF
  
• "Tropical drive, Mulholland Malady" By: Hervé Aubron (Vertigo FR, #27, Mar 2005) [FRENCH]
  
• "Un coup dans la machine. Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By:Antoine Thirion (Vertigo Fr, #30, Apr 2007) [FRENCH]
  
• "Two Letters" By: Mark Cousins & Tilda Swinton (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna April 2009)
  
• "Resistant to Bliss: Describing Apichatpong" By: James Quandt (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "Cinema of Reincarnations" By: Kong Rithdee (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "Touching the Voidness. Films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: Tony Rayns (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "A Man Who Can Recall His Past Lives. Installations by Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: Karen Newman (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "AUTEUR, AUTEUR: After Tropical Malady" By: Graeme Hobbs (vertigo UK, Vol.4 No.3, Spring-Summer 2009)
  
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BOOK on Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL

• "Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: James Quandt (FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna April 2009; 256 p.) Table of content PDF - Wallflower Press / review in Undercurrent April 2010 / review in Cineaste Spring 2011 
  
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GENERAL ONLINE ARTICLES

• "Mysterious Objects: On the early works of Apichatpong" By: Suparp Rimtheparthip (Criticine, 24 Oct 2006) on early work
  
• "Ghost World" By: Bert Rebhand (Frieze, #103, Nov-Dec 2006)
  
• "Blissfully His" By: Nathan Lee (The Village Voice; 1 Jan 2008)
  
• "To Munich and back with Apichatpong Weerasethakul…" By: Karen Newman (the FACTblog, 23 Feb 2009) on The Primitives installation
  
• "Exquisite Corpus" By: Mark Peranson (Moving Image Source, 30 Apr 2009)
  
• "Puzzling Polymath" By: Dennis Lim (Artforum, 12 Jun 2009)
  
• "Apichatpong Weerasethakul connections" By: Brian Darr (Hell On Frisco Bay, 5 July 2009)
  
• "Sound & Vision" By: Apichatpong Weerasethakul & Yang Fudong (Film comment, Sept 2009)
  
• "Apichatpong et la Thaïlande" By: Aliosha Herrera (Independencia, 23 May 2010) 
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INTERVIEW

• "Et pourtant, ils tournent" By: Louis Guichard (Télérama, #2733, 29 May 2002) [FRENCH] on Blissfully Yours
• "La simplicité est la clé de tout" By: Philippe Azoury (Libération, 19 Oct 2002) [FRENCH] on Blissfully Yours
• "Weerasethakul et la maladie d'amour" (Figaro, 18 May 2004) [FRENCH] on Tropical Malady
• "Une film se ressent avec le corps tout entier" By: Samuel Douhaire (Libération, 20 May 2004) [FRENCH] on Tropical Malady
• "Weerasethakul et Gatlif : Deux dissidences" By: Philippe Piazo (Cinéma, 8 Sept 2004) [FRENCH] on Tropical Malady
  
• "Not an ordinary Joe: Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tropical Malady" By: Alissa Simon (Facets, ?) on Tropical Malady
  
• "Blissfully Ours: A Talk With Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: Jonathan Marlow (GreenCine, 14 Feb 2005)
  
• "Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye. A Conversation with Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: Michael Koresky (reverse shot online, summer 2005)
  
• "A Conversation with Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: Thunska Pansittivorakul (criticine, 30 Apr 2006)
  
• "Five Questions for . . . Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: Nathan Lee (The Village Voice, 10 Apr 2007)
  
• "Thai Cinema—The Evening Class Interview With Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: Michael Guillen (The Evening Class, 13 Apr 2007)
  
• "Why and for whom do you film today?" By: Alexis A. Tioseco (Criticine, 23 Aug 2007)
  
• "Who can save my flying saucer?" By: Phil Hoad (The Guardian, 14 Sept 2007) on Syndromes and a century
  
• "Change the World: An Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: S. Mickey Lin and Genevieve Yue (Reverse Shot, #20, ?)
  
• "Apichatpong Weerasethakul: interview" (Time Out London, ?)
  
• "Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul on 'Mobile Men'" (Art of The World, 16 Jan 2009) on Mobile Men
  
• "Exquisite Corpus. An Interview with Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: James Quandt (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "Integration, not distinction. Weerasethakul im Gespräch" By: Maximilian Linz (Überbau, 5 Apr 2009) on Syndromes and a century
  
• "ArtCinema - Apichatpong Weerasethakul im Gespräch" (Cargo, 31 Mar 2009) [ENGLISH] [GERMAN] 7 parts video 28'48"
• "Primitive (o el intersticio)", By: Francisco Algarín Navarro & Fernando Ganzo, (Lumière nº3, 2010) [SPANISH]
• "Nuestro siglo: Apichatpong Weerasethakul" By: Francisco Algarín Navarro (Lumière n°3, 2010) [SPANISH]
• "Hors d'œuvre" By: Antoine Thirion (Independencia, 13 May 2010) [ENGLISH] [FRENCH] on Uncle Boonmee
• "Klassenkampf: Apichatpong Weerasethakul im Gespräch" interview by Alexander Horwath (Cargo, 25 May 2010) MP3 22' [ENGLISH] on Uncle Boonmee
• "Différentes réalités" By: Stéphane Delorme & Jean-Philippe Tessé, Cannes 13 mai 2010 (Cahiers, n°657, Juin 2010) [FRENCH]
• "une conversation en six parties avec apichatpong weerasethakul et wallapa mongkolprasert (4 juin 2010)" avec : Christelle Lheureux, Aliosha Herrera, Cyril Neyrat, Raya Martin, Eugenio Renzi et Antoine Thirion (Independencia; été 2010) [THAI] [ENGLISH] [FRENCH] videos 1 (13') - 2 (17') - 3 (11') - 4 (?) - 5 (?)
• "Joe over Uncle Boonmee..." By: Ronald Rovers (Filmkrant, #325, Oct 2010) [DUTCH]
• "Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Meet the YouTube Play Jury" (YouTube Play biennale at Guggenheim, 20 Oct 2010) 
• "Masterclass Apichatpong Weerasethakul" (FC4+1; 12 Nov 2010) [ENGLISH] [SPANISH] video (2h32') 1-2
• "Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives" by: Miguel Blanco, Francisco Algarín Navarro, Fernando Ganzo, Miguel García Moisés Granda (Lumière nº4, 23 Nov 2010) video 10'50" [SPANISH] [ENGLISH] 
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TEXT BY Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL

• "Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Syndromes and a century. Carnet d'un cinéaste" (Cahiers du cinéma, #618, ?) [FRENCH]
  
• "Ghosts in the Darkness" By: Apichatpong Weerasethakul (in Apichatpong Weerasethakul, FilmmuseumSynemaPublikationen; Vol. 12; Vienna; April 2009)
  
• "Texte zu Weerasethakul. Eine Sammlung" A collection of texts by Weerasethakul (Cargo, ?) [GERMAN] on Mysterious Object At Noon, Blissfully Yours, The Adventure of the Iron Pussy, Tropical Malady, Syndromes and a century
  
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WEBSITES

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DOCUMENTARY ON Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL

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