363785
363785

Fireworks (Archives)

2014-05-17 en 7m
This film depicts Bunleua Sulilat’s temple/sculpture garden 'Sala Keoku', located in northern Thailand. Passages of blackness sporadically dissolve under the fitful internal illumination of sparklers, which light up to reveal Sulilat’s unorthodox temple populated with a fantastical concrete menagerie of beasts and figures; the sculptures range from the broad, whale-like contours of a frog’s face, to a cavalcade of dogs on mopeds, to a pair of skeletons partially embracing as if sitting for a double portrait. These images are interspersed with those of an older Thai couple mysteriously wandering around the temple like wraiths, the woman’s plodding progress hampered by the use of crutches.

Sound mixer

Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr

Director

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Camera Operator

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Foley

Chalermrat Kaweewattana

Sound Effects Editor

Chalermrat Kaweewattana

Editor

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

temple fireworks thailand art

Status

Released

Countries

  • Thailand

Companies

  • Kurimanzutto