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[Book] APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL
Title__ APICHATPONG WEERASETHAKUL
Editor__ James Quandt
Publisher__ Austrian Film Museum
Year__ April 2009
ISBN__ 978-3-901644-31-3
Thai filmmaker Apichatpong ‘Joe’ Weerasethakul is widely praised as one of the central figures in contemporary cinema. Trained as a visual artist in the US, he has stunned the film world with five innovative and dreamlike features made since the year 2000 – including award-winning films such as Blissfully Yours (2002), Tropical Malady (2004) and Syndromes and a Century (2006). James Quandt, the editor of this first English-language book on Weerasethakul, is one of the foremost film critics and curators working in North America today. Further contributors include Benedict Anderson, Tony Rayns, Kong Rithdee and actress Tilda Swinton.
about the editor
James Quandt is Senior Programmer at Cinematheque Ontario. He has written extensively about film and edited books on Robert Bresson, Kon Ichikawa and Shohei Imamura, among others.
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