Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Apichatpong Weerasethakul ( Thai: อภิ ชาติ พงศ์ วีระ เศรษฐ กุล, pronounced: [ ʔàp ʰ íʨ ʰ â ː t p ʰ on wi ː rásètt ʰ Akun ]; * July 16, 1970 in Bangkok, Thailand) is a Thai film director, screenwriter and film producer. For his feature film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, he received in 2010 as the first Thai film makers the Palme d'Or at the International Film Festival of Cannes.
Biography
Apichatpong Weerasethakul was born in 1970 in Bangkok, but grew up in Khon Kaen in northeastern Thailand. There he studied architecture. During his studies he received through video stores a wider knowledge of the cinema and turned it on video some 16- mm short films. After graduation in 1994 he went to Chicago to study film at the Art Institute of Chicago. He completed his second degree in 1997.
In 1999 he founded the film production company Kick the Machine and produced this 27- minute short film Malee and the Boy, which follows the everyday life of a eleven year olds in the Thai capital Bangkok. A first longer work as a director Apichatpong supplied with the documentary Dokfa nai meuman from the years 2000 shown at film festivals around the world. The international breakthrough came with the feature film Blissfully Yours. This has been shown at numerous international film festivals, praised by most critics and received several awards, including the Prix Un Certain Regard at the International Film Festival of Cannes 2002 and the Award for Young Cinema at the Singapore International Film Festival. The main character of the film is a Burmese who lives illegally in Thailand and is suffering from a skin disease. It examines how the protagonist and his girlfriend take a trip into the wilderness.
After he had been active ra at the 2003 atypical for the rest of his working musical comedy Hua jai tor nong as co-director, followed in 2004 Tropical Malady, in which the self- gay director addressed the love between two men. In the time praised as "sensation of cinema ," the film is about a soldier (played by Banlop Lomnoi ) and his lover ( Sakda Kaewbuadee ). When the latter disappears, the soldier believes, based on a legend of the Missing would have turned into a cruel beast, and goes looking for him. In the Film Festival of Cannes Tropical Malady was awarded the Jury Prize.
In 2005 he took part in a project of the Thai Ministry of Culture, which should collect thirteen short films in memory of the victims of the tsunami in the Indian Ocean in 2004. His nine -minute contribution was entitled Ghost of Asia.
On August 30, 2006, his feature film Sang Sattawat premiered in competition at the 63rd International Film Festival of Venice. The film, inspired by the parents of the director's life, told in two parts by a female and a male doctor in various hospitals. " Spectacular images go into contemplative calm down on the audience before a irrwitziges community dance finale ends the meditation abruptly ," it said in the mirror over Sang Sattawat.
2008 Apichatpong was appointed to the jury of the 61st Cannes Film Festival.
In July 2008, France awarded him the Chevalier des Arts et Lettres medal.
Edited by James Quandt - In March 2009, the first book on Thailand's Apichatpong Weerasethakul outside appeared. A year later he received for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives was the first Thai film makers the Palme d'Or of the 63rd Cannes Film Festival.
On the Documenta (13 ) in Kassel its designed together with Chi Siri large figure of a white-robed spirit was shown in 2012.
In 2012 he took over the head of the jury of the 65th edition of the International Film Festival of Locarno.