Unspoken Cinema

Latest addition to the Library page on Unspoken Cinema :  "For over twenty years, director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has received international acclaim for the sensuous pacing, folkloric narratives and creative resistance to authoritarian politics buried within an expansive body of work. Situated on the fault line of narrative filmmaking and contemporary art, his work flickers between obscurity and critique, leaning into the ambiguities of contemplative art cinema to challenge political orders, resurface repressed national memories and even reimagine the structure of cinema itself. Apichatpong Weerasethakul: Contemplation and Resistance is a major study of the screen works of one of contemporary cinema’s most influential directors. Through deconstruction of his major works placed in cultural, historical and political context, Contemplation and Resistance chronicles the creative and political interventions of one of the most influential political filmmakers of the twenty-first cen...

Dernière ajout à la page Bibliothèque (Library) sur Unspoken Cinema : "Il y aurait une sinité du plan-séquence chinois, une profonde interconnexion entre les traditions artistiques et philosophiques de la Chine et cette pratique cinématographique. Enraciné dans des concepts tels que le wuwei erwei et inspiré par l'esthétique du rouleau horizontal et du lavis. Le plan-séquence depuis ses débuts dans le cinéma chinois semble incarner une vision chinoise du temps et de l'espace. [..]" "On peut aisément avancer que le plan-séquence dans le cinéma chinois est le fruit d’une fraternité avec l’international slow cinema représenté par des réalisateurs asiatiques comme Apichatpong Weerasethakul ou Lav Diaz. Ainsi ce n’est pas une filiation avec un passé traditionnel mandarin qui expliquerait cette surprésence du plan-séquence dans le cinéma chinois de la sixième génération mais une connexion avec une mouvance actuel dans le cinéma asiatique. Lorsque l’on étudie le plan-...

"[..] Our emphasis on the affective mediation of the film’s atmospheres contributes to the slow cinema debate, where much theorising explains the genre’s characteristic slowness in narrative-aesthetic terms. By including recent discourse on affective atmospheres, we aim to provide theoretical tools that can be used to understand and analyse the stylistic features of slow films as aesthetic, atmospheric properties that afford viewers’ meaningful engagement with the film-world in ways differently than narrative comprehension and/or character engagement. In other words, the novel framework of film atmosphere helps advance the understanding of certain distinct aesthetic pleasures this type of film offers its audience; the notion of atmosphere captures well the power the aesthetics of slowness holds. [..]" Slow Cinematic Atmosphere: Developing an Enactivist-Phenomenological Theory for Contemplative Spectatorship ; Jakob Boer & Ludo de Roo; 17 Feb 2025; Quarterly Review of Film...

  Memoria: Time, Stasis, and Singularity (YouTube) 12'55" (Constantin Strother) 26 Dec 2024 A video essay exploring the connection between Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film, Memoria, and Ray Kurzweil's theory of the Singularity

  Rencontre avec Apichatpong Weerasethakul pour le livre d'entretiens "Homes" (YouTube) 1h03' Boutique Potemkine (10/10/2024)

  Le cinéaste Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL est au centre Pompidou (YouTube) 7'45" (Le Centre Pompidou) 1 Oct 2024 ENGLISH SUBS Voir aussi sur Unspoken Cinema : WEERASETHAKUL in Paris (Pompidou 2024)  pour le programme

  À venir : Apichatpong Weerasethakul | Cinéma & exposition | Centre Pompidou (YouTube) 31" (Centre Pompidou) 19 sept 2024 Festival d'automne (rétrospective+exposition+performance) du 2 octobre 2024 au 6 janvier 2025 :  Apichatpong Weerasethakul - Des Lumières et des ombres - Centre Pompidou

Many texts collected in English and Dutch on the cinema of Weerasethakul at Sabzian... For him, cinema is the artform that can address the mysteries of time and that creates a shared body of memories. Cinema is a time machine to him, in part technical, partly magical. “I am interested in exploring the innards of this time machine. There might be some mysterious forces waiting to be revealed just as certain things that used to be called black magic have been shown to be scientific facts. For me, filmmaking remains a source all of whose energy we haven’t properly utilized. In the same way that we have not thoroughly explained the inner workings of the mind.”   Transmigrating Souls: The Cinema of Apichatpong WEERASETHAKUL (Sabzian)

 

  Cemetery of Splendour - Political critique through the lens of Paul Schrader's transcendental style (YouTube) 10'57" Aryan Kurungode (31 July 2023)

  (Left to right: Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Béla Tarr, Carlos Reygadas) Watch the discussion between Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Carlos Reygadas and Béla Tarr (The Film Stage, Sarajevo Film Academy, 12 Dec 2016) 40' x2

  PILLOW SHOTS of Apichatpong Weerasethakul (YouTube) 15'12" Just Another GUY with a Camera (4 march 2022)

Apichatpong Weerasethakul - IFFR Big Talk #3 (YouTube) 1h32'  International Film Festival Rotterdam - 12 Feb 2018

  Memoria (Apitchapong Weerasethakul) feat. Corentin Lê (YouTube) 49'39" MicroCine - 16 dec 2021 L'article de Corentin Lê sur "Memoria" Emission de Critikat : Hatari, sur Memoria

  MEMORIA | Film Analysis (YouTube) 5'55" (CineMollusk) 8 july 2023 Not so much a review, but a collection of observations regarding Apichatpong Weerasethakul's 2021 film "Memoria" starring Tilda Swinton.  References the following films:  Under the Skin (2013)  I Walked with a Zombie (1943)  2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)  Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010)  Carnival of Souls (1963)  Everything Everywhere All At Once (2022)  The Long Search (1977)

  Slow Cinema (YouTube) 5'22" GlasgowFilmTheatre (18 jan 2022) In this video essay, made by GFT Youth Board member Simona, she takes us through the world of slow cinema. This is where filmmakers encourage audiences to take their time and absorb the scene, rather than bombard them with images, special effects and visual distractions.

  Being Like Water: Tilda Swinton & Apichatpong Weerasethakul on MEMORIA (YouTube) 1h12' (MUBI) 13 April 2023 This special bonus episode courtesy of our Latin American show MUBI Podcast: Encuentros features a conversation between Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tilda Swinton.  More details here: https://mubi.io/3mjkGXA   Produced in partnership with La Corriente del Golfo.  The discussion touches on the creative process of two of film’s greatest names – Tilda Swinton and Apichatpong Weerasethakul – while working together on the film MEMORIA together, which was an intimate collaboration founded on their long friendship.

  Memoria - How Sound Makes A Story - Connecting Ourselves To The Unexpected - The Perception Of Time (YouTube) 14'49" (Cinema To The Max) 9 July 2022 Memoria by Apichatpong Weerasethakul is one of the most interesting cinematic works in recent history. The complex themes it presents coupled with the mesmerizing sound design allow the experience to be incredibly moving and meditative. Most notably, its perception of time and how unexpected events play into the character's life make it an enthralling watch. There haven't been many trips to the theater as powerful as this one. This video connects it to the themes mentioned above.

  Dreaming of Nothing with Apichatpong Weerasethakul (YouTube) 1h02' (Berlinale Talents 2021) 4 march 2021 Dreaming is certainly a source of creative power for Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the Thai director of to date ten feature films ("Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives", "Cemetery of Splendour") and countless shorts and art installations, whose ghostly storyworlds (sub)consciously oscillate between the states of waking and sleeping. Taking time off from the work on his newest film "Memoria", Apichatpong joins Berlinale Talents to engage in a collective dream about 'nothing', an ultimate challenge for many of us, who have been trained and built to accumulate - things, memories, films, knowledge. In conversation with Juan Diaz Bohorquez, they will explore how nothingness can be rethought and challenge the preconceptions of what we dream of.

  Apichatpong Weerasethakul filme l'inconscient (YouTube) 7'05" Tracks (ARTE) 22 may 2023