This collective video work presents the creations of twenty-five of today's international leading contemporary visual artists, all of whom have created a one-minute video in response to the HIV/AIDS pandemic currently inflicting Africa. Each artist has used only non-documentary techniques to convey the message of the 46664 campaign through the universal language of art. Hopeful...
Each video is a morning portrait of Teem, the filmmaker’s partner. As winter approached in Thailand, Teem informed Apichatpong that he would start to hibernate until February 2008. As a result, the man sleeps a lot during this time. Apichatpong observed and sometimes disrupted his partner’s mission with a mobile phone.
In 2018, Apichatpong Weerasethakul made a film called BLUE. In it, actress Jenjira Pongpas Widner is unable to sleep. She is in a bed surrounded by banana trees. Nearby, a set of traditional theater backdrops unspools, revealing two alternate landscapes: a sunset over the sea and the foyer of a royal palace. Later on, her lack of sleep seems to set the place on fire. A flicker ...
RANDOM ACTS by Marina Abramovic, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Zineb Sedira, Johan Grimonprez, Shahryar Nashat, Lucy Harvey, Rachel Mayeri, Lewis Klahr, Mark Leckey, Semiconductor, Sarah Wood, Young-Hae Chang, Richard Billingham e altri, UK 2012, 50’. A collection of artists’ short films produced by Jacqui Davies for Channel 4.