Apichatpong weerasethakul biography

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Apichatpong was born in Bangkok and grew up in Khon Kaen in north-eastern Thailand. He began making films and film shorts in 1994 and completed his first feature in 2000. He has also mounted exhibitions and installations in many countries since 1998. Apichatpong is recognized as a major international filmskapare and visual artist. His works are characterized by their use of non-linear storytelling, often dealing with themes of memory, loss, identity, desire, and history. His works have won him widespread international recognition and numerous awards, including the Cannes Jury Prize in 2021 for Memoria, his first film shot outside of Thailand featuring Tilda Swinton. He also won the Cannes Palme d’Or in 2010 with Uncle Boonmee, Who Can Recall His Past Lives. His Tropical Malady won the Cannes Competition Jury Prize in 2004 and Blissfully Yours won the Cannes Un Certain Regard Award in 2002. Syndromes and a Century (2006) was recognised as one of the best films of the las

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Apichatpong Weerasethakul was born in Bangkok in 1970 and grew up in Khon Kaen, in the northeast of Thailand. He graduated from Khon Kaen University with a Bachelor's degree in Architecture and a Master's grad in Film Directing from the Art Institute of Chicago.
He started making short films in film and video in 1994, and completed his first feature film in 2000. He has also participated in numerous exhibitions and made installations in many countries since 1998. Rarely linear, his work maintains a relationship with memory, evoking social and political issues in a subtle and personal way.
Working away from the Thai film industry, he is involved in the promotion of independent and experimental cinema through his company Kick The Machine Films, founded in 1999. Kick The Machine Films has participated in the production of all his feature films. In 2008, he launched the Primitive Project, a multi-media company. In 2009, he and his work were t

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b. 1970, Bangkok) grew up in Khon Kaen, a city in the north east of Thailand. He has a degree in Architecture from Khon Kaen University and a Master of Fine Arts in Filmmaking from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He has been making films and videos since the early 90s. He is one of the few filmmakers in Thailand who have worked outside the strict Thai studio system. In his films, he experiments with certain elements found in the dramatic plot structure of Thai television and radio programs, comics and old films. He finds his inspiration in small towns around the country. In his work, he often uses non-professional actors and improvised dialogue in exploring the shifting boundaries between documentary and fiction.

In 2000, he completed his first feature, Mysterious Object at Noon (2000), a documentary that has been screened at many international festivals and received enthusiastic reviews and awards as well as being listed among the best film