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Nakhon Pathom, Thailand: Wearied by-the-run Junta creative constrictions of Thailand, Palme d'Or-winning director Apichatpong Weerasethakul making the HIS Next feature in Colombia With Tilda Swinton, HIS PROMISE pocket to bring key themes – ghosts, memory and politics – With Him.
Apichatpong, a soft Spoken From 48-year-old rural Thailand, May not leap out as a household name.
But the he-the figurehead of Thailand's cinema and a doyen of-the-Scenes global arthouse circuit, vaunted for HIS non-linear storytelling sessions, dreamy style shooting and strong – ow OFTEN subtle – Political messaging.
With HIS home country rule Under Military Since 2014, told the-Filmmaker AFP he DECIDED not to make-the film in Thailand, wherein Political discussion stifled and he says the film Can Be shut down are on the whims of-the generals.
To make a movie without URGENT Addressing-the issue of-the kingdom's politics would be to undermine HIS role as a Filmmaker, Apichatpong says.
"I Want to talk about politics, Our reality, Our lives," he told AFP Print week before an awards event on Nov 19 in Nakhon Pathom, Bangkok Outside.
Military rule Has suffocated artistic EXPRESSION in Thailand, With pocket Elections slated for early Next year a kickback the Emerging creative, From documentaries to rap and graffiti.
Yet for the long ahead the-road film, Apichatpong said, explaining That "cinema Will follow … real Democracy and rights" and the happy he Adding to "nurture a new generation of Filmmaker".
Apichatpong Was catapulted to Recognition by "Uncle Boonmee Who HIS can recall past lives", Which won-the 2010 Palme d'Or at Cannes.
His elegiac films sweep through mysterious forests, mystical creatures, hallucinations and bruised National histories.
In the Dec he the due to release a short in-the kingdom as part of "Ten Years Thailand", a bold project to document HIS nation's Political and social travails.
Memory and ghosts
But HIS Next feature, "memoria"Which the CURRENTLY being scripted, filmed in Colombia Will Be – That a country shares some parallels to politically fragmented HIS HOMELAND.
Between September 1970 and 1980, marked by a Period Fight Between-the-bitter-the left-wing FARC guerillas and paramilitary groups of the-right Radical, Swinton playing-the film features an expat "adventurer" Sort of.
She Experiences auditory hallucinations and Tries to "find-the sources of sounds These happenings to her only ', Thai-the director explained.
Research tooks in two months-long trips to Colombia With interviews and psychiatrists about drug use technologies, he said, HIS Typical of immersive approach to filmmaking.
Apichatpong thought-years for Been quietly working on a script for HIS long-time friend Swinton.
The pair eventually Agreed to-the-story frame Outside Thailand, wherein They were "Strangers Both … Both Foreigners".
"The story about the discovery. She (Swinton) the very adventurous. Has She lives in a different world-the cinema, more mainstream movies … Has SHE ALSO pocket experimental movies ".
French actress Jeanne Balibar, Who met-the Thai director whens They were jury-members at Cannes in 2008, ALSO Will the star-the film as an archeologist.
The story equalizer on a motif for HIS That runs through films – ghosts.
Apichatpong's parents were and he Doctors participants ran up in a hospital compound wherein "sickness, death and birth" left an indelible mark, whiles ALSO Was he preoccupied With the-supernatural sci-fi and throughout CHILDHOOD.
'There Was thoses MIXED-nothing at that time of sci-fi magazines, Comics ghost and ghost movies, "he said.
"So to me They Belong To The Same place, a place out of the-ordinary, antigravity, something to That can appear at night and Disappear in front of Your Eyes".
But theres Was-the leap in logic to Colombia – firstly From a Perspective for an international film financing, to boot ALSO HIS satisfyi curiosity.
"I was very Interested in Latin American culture, I was very Interested in-the Amazon. But there's whens I was I was more attracted to-the-people, to their memories, "he said.
"They really ALSO Believe in ghosts". – AFP
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