Luminous Phantoms

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, "Luminous Phantoms" (61 min) 

Nokia Short (2003, 2 min, DCP, colour, silent)  
Filmed on mobile phone. Swimming pool and sky merge into one, while bodies play happily. 

Ghost of Asia (2005, 9 mins, colour, original version with French subtitles)  
Co-directed with Christelle Lheureux  
The children become the directors: they give instructions to a ghost actor following the 2004 Asian Tsunami. 
"Eight minutes in which the shaman from Tropical Malady (him again) obediently and quickly carries out the orders given by two mischievous children: eat fruit, sleep, catch a crab. Eight short minutes wrapped up in a childlike, joyful and naive hedonism, the first part of a project about the tsunami.” Jean-Philippe Tessé, Cahiers du cinéma, September 2003 

Luminous People (2007, 15 min, DCP, colour, original version with French subtitles)  
Produced for the collective film L'État du monde (2007, 105 min).  
This short recreates an event commemorating the presence of the dead, the faded memories of the living and cinema. 
"The great strength of Joe's cinema, which can be seen in every feature, short film and videowork (sic): a commitment to formal abstraction is not an impediment to either documentary or genre.” Antoine Thirion, Cahiers du cinéma, February 2008 

Mobile Men (2008, 3 mins, DCP, colour, silent)  
Two young men film each other in the back of a pick-up truck.  

M Hotel (2011, 12 mins, DCP, colour, silent)  
In Hong Kong, two men film each other in a hotel, while a third walks through the city, wearing a microphone. 

Morakot (Emerald) (2007, 11 min, DCP, colour, original version with French subtitles)  
In Karl Gjellerup's The Pilgrim Kamanita, the protagonists are reborn as two stars and spend centuries telling their stories. 

Ablaze (2016, 5 min, DCP, colour, silent)  
Two figures in a black forest against a white background. 

January Stories (2024, 4 mins, DCP, colour, silent)  
Score for Tilda Swinton and lighting.