Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Thai film director

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul

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Category: Arts & Culture

Byname:: Joe

Born:: July 16, 1970, Bangkok, Thailand (age 53)

Notable Works:: “Blissfully Yours”; “Like the Relentless Fury of Pounding Waves”; “Mysterious Object at Noon”; “Syndromes and a Century”; “The Adventure of Iron Pussy”; “Tropical Malady”; “Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives”

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul (born July 16, 1970, Bangkok, Thailand) Thai film director, writer, and installation artist whose preference for unconventional storytelling usually relegated his work to the art house. Nevertheless, his style also has been described as joyful, spontaneous, playful, unpretentious, and gentle. Weerasethakul’s parents were both doctors. He grew up in Khon Kaen, in a rice-growing region of rural northeastern Thailand, and studied architecture at Khon Kaen University (B.A., 1994). He took a master’s degree in filmmaking from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (M.F.A., 1997). In 1993 he produced his first film, an experimental silent short entitled ...(100 of 623 words)

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