Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Fireworks (Archives) Marseille 2nd Arrondissement, June 25, 2022, Marseille 2nd Arrondissement.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Fireworks (Archives) FRAC (Regional Fund for Contemporary Art) 20 Boulevard De Dunkerque Marseille 2nd Arrondissement
2022-06-25 – 2022-09-25 FRAC (Regional Fund for Contemporary Art) 20 Boulevard De Dunkerque
Marseille 2nd District Bouches-du-Rhône Marseille 2nd District

The short film Fireworks (Archives), 2014, acquired by the Frac in 2021, is a film installation where memory, as often in the cinema of the Thai author, rubs shoulders with other ephemeral elements such as light, ghostly apparitions .

Like a counterpoint to the feature film Cemetery of Splendor, imbued with a slow and luminous melancholy, Fireworks (Archives) works like a hallucinatory memory machine. Night covers the screen; against a backdrop of pyrotechnic cracklings, a whole inventory of fantastic and giant sculptures of animals, hybrid creatures and deities, hosts of the Sala Keoku park, in Nong Khai, in north-eastern Thailand, parade in flashes of light. For the filmmaker, these statues bear witness to a form of revolt against the country’s long history of oppression: “They commemorate the destruction and liberation of the earth.”

Biography
Apichatpong Weerasethakul was born in 1970 in Bangkok (Thailand). He lives and works in Chiang Mai (Thailand). Weerasethakul graduated in architecture from Khon Kaen University in Thailand (1994). He received a Masters in Film from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998, as well as an honorary doctorate from the same institution in 2011. In 1999, he co-founded Kick the Machine Films, a company that produced several his own films as well as other experimental Thai films and videos. His artistic projects and feature films have earned him widespread recognition and numerous festival awards, including three Cannes Film Festival awards: Un Certain Regard for Blissfully Yours in 2002, Jury Prize for Tropical Malady in 2004, Palme d’Or for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives in 2010, and Joint Jury Prize for Memoria, 2021.

Frac – performative stage
As part of the Grand Arles Express

Find the film installation Fireworks (Archives) – Apichatpong Weerasethakul at the Frac, from June 25 to September 25, 2022.

https://www.frac-provence-alpes-cotedazur.org/Apichatpong-Weerasethakul

The short film Fireworks (Archives), 2014, acquired by the Frac in 2021, is a film installation where memory, as often in the cinema of the Thai author, rubs shoulders with other ephemeral elements such as light, ghostly apparitions .

Like a counterpoint to the feature film Cemetery of Splendor, imbued with a slow and luminous melancholy, Fireworks (Archives) works like a hallucinatory memory machine. Night covers the screen; against a backdrop of pyrotechnic cracklings, a whole inventory of fantastic and giant sculptures of animals, hybrid creatures and deities, hosts of the Sala Keoku park, in Nong Khai, in north-eastern Thailand, parade in flashes of light. For the filmmaker, these statues bear witness to a form of revolt against the country’s long history of oppression: “They commemorate the destruction and liberation of the earth.”

Biography
Apichatpong Weerasethakul was born in 1970 in Bangkok (Thailand). He lives and works in Chiang Mai (Thailand). Weerasethakul graduated in architecture from Khon Kaen University in Thailand (1994). He received a Masters in Film from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998, as well as an honorary doctorate from the same institution in 2011. In 1999, he co-founded Kick the Machine Films, a company that produced several his own films as well as other experimental Thai films and videos. His artistic projects and feature films have earned him widespread recognition and numerous festival awards, including three Cannes Film Festival awards: Un Certain Regard for Blissfully Yours in 2002, Jury Prize for Tropical Malady in 2004, Palme d’Or for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives in 2010, and Joint Jury Prize for Memoria, 2021.

Frac – performative stage
As part of the Grand Arles Express

FRAC (Regional Fund for Contemporary Art) 20 Boulevard De Dunkerque Marseille 2nd Arrondissement
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