Projection and discussion
Liquidités
Short film programme #3
11 Oct 2024
The event is over
This programme of five short films focuses on river and wave motifs.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, "Liquidity" (80 min)
Cactus River (2012, 10 min, DCP, B&W, silent)
Film diary of a visit by the filmmaker to Jenjira Nach Pongpas Widner, actress and long-time collaborator.
La Punta (2013, 2 mins, DCP, colour, silent)
The rain, the road, the sea.
Footprints (2014, 6 min, DCP, colour, silent)
All movement and humour, made on the set of Cemetery of Splendour for a series of films about football.
Sakda (Rousseau) (2012, 6 min, DCP, colour, original version with French subtitles)
Who owns a face once it's been filmed?
Mekong Hotel (2012, 57 min, DCP, colour, original version with French subtitles)
This fiction/documentary film weaves together the links between a mother (who is a vampire), her daughter, her daughter's lover and the river.
"Weerasethakul shows us a way to die of poetry. How to film an excavator stripping tree trunks with the grace of a grasshopper. Or jet-skiers on a river, like atoms falling randomly through the universe. [...] The film evokes the exodus of Laotians to Thailand (across the Mekong separating the two countries), the flight of Thai and Laotian couples to France, the military education of young Thai men in the 1970s... In the end, Weerasethakul's "documentary" brings to life (through bodies folding against each other) the separation that takes place every day in all human beings. And that refuses to be filled, showing instead how it fissures and grows.” Éric Horel, Libération, 17 May 2012.
Followed by a discussion with Sakda Kaewbuadee, Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Antoine Thirion.
Next screening 9 november
When
5pm - 6:45pm