Apichatpong Weerasethakul Recalls His Past Lives [Qumra 2018 Masterclass]

Now celebrating its fourth year, Qumra is a weeklong industry event run by the Doha Film Institute in Qatar.

We’ll be bringing you coverage of the stellar lineup of Qumra 2018 Masterclasses, given by such luminaries as Tilda Swinton, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Andrey Zvyaginstev, Bennett Miller and Sandy Powell, in the coming days.“Cinema is really primitive.

And we should congratulate ourselves that we are still in the very early point of it, a romantic point if you will, when the possibilities are still immense.”We should have learnt by now that although Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul has carved out one of the most singular filmographies of the modern era, and has developed a cinematic voice that is unmistakably and wholly his own, (here’s me having a quasi-religious experience during his last feature, “Cemetery of Splendour“) no matter how well we feel we know his work, he will still find a way to surprise us.

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