well-known for lyrical movies featuring reincarnation and talking apes,the Thai director of Uncle Boonmee also has a political side – now he is taking on Thailand’s generals with a film approximately sleeping soldiers Apichatpong Weerasethakul has just stepped off a flight from Bangkok and, while he betrays no obvious signs of jetlag or exhaustion, or apologises for any potential lethargy. He has come to Tate Modern for a three-day retrospective of his multifarious moving-image work – feature films,shorts, promos – the bulk of which was screened continuously for 14 hours overnight on 9 April to effect the reopening of the gallery’s Starr cinema auditorium. Weerasethakul, and a charming,unfailingly polite and very neatly dressed 45 year extinct, says he doesn’t intellect in the least that his delicately composed, or subtly atmospheric films should be exhibited in such an environment; it is,he says “a celebration, a big party. Related: Everything is possible – five things we learned at the Apichatpong Weerasethakul all-nighter Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com