The Moving Image Source Calendar is a selective international guide to retrospectives, screenings, festivals, and exhibitions.
Descriptions are drawn from the calendars of the presenting venues.
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Retrospective Apichatpong Weerasethakul
February 20-May 24, 2009 at
Filmmuseum München
, Munich
A retrospective of Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film work, including the world premiere of A Letter to Uncle Boonmee and Phantoms of Nabua.
Primitive is a multi-platform project by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Commissioned by Haus der Kunst, Munich with FACT Liverpool, and Animate Projects. Produced by Illuminations Films, London with Kick the Machine, Bangkok. The short online film, Phantoms of Nabua, is presented by Animate Projects online from 18 February to coincide with the opening of the Primitive installation at Haus der Kunst, Munich on 19 February. The cinema version of the short film, A Letter to Uncle Boonmee, also had its world premiere in Munich on 20 February.
Primitive was shot in the border town, Nabua, where the Mekong River divides Thailand and Laos, an area with a long history of racial migration and slaughter. It was also a 'red zone' where the Mao-influenced Communist party moved into the mountain range and the Thai government targeted local communities as communist sympathisers. Nabua has an ancient legend about a widow ghost who would abduct any man who enters her empire. The Primitive project re-imagines Nabua, the "widow town," as a town of men, freed from the widow ghost's empire, and features the male descendants of the farmer communists-teenagers that will lead a journey, fabricate memories, and build a dreamscape in the jungle.
Featured Works:
0016643225059 (1994); Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves (Mae ya nang, 1995); Thirdworld (Goh gayasit, 1997); Malee and the Boy (1999); Windows (1999); Mysterious Object at Noon (Dogfar nai mae marn, 2000); Haunted Houses (Bann phi sing, 2001); Blissfully Yours (Sud sanaeha, 2002); The Adventure of Iron Pussy (Hua Jai Tor Ra Nong, 2003); Tropical Malady (Sud Pralad, 2004); Ghost of Asia (2005); Worldly Desires (2005); The Anthem (2006); Syndromes and a Century (Sang Sattawat, 2006, pictured); Emerald (Morakot, 2007); My Mother's Garden (2007); Luminous People (2007); TEEM Nov 20 (2007); Mobile Men (2008); Vampire (Sud Vikal, 2008); A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009); Phantoms of Nabua (2009)
Program information:
Retrospective Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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