Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Apichatpong Weerasethakul's films come from the soil and from the other world at once; they slip quietly through time and wander among different states of consciousness. In the first half of Tropical Malady the soldier Keng courts Tong, who works in the countryside, and the same approach is rebuilt in the second half, in the language of folk narrative, as a forest ranger goes after a tiger's spirit. Syndromes and a Century is a diptych telling one unfinished love story in two places, a rural hospital and a modern building in Bangkok; his own parents had met while working at a country hospital. Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, the film that took him the Palme d'Or, has the spirits of his dead wife and his lost son guiding him through earlier lives. Alongside features he makes shorts, music videos and video installations.