Interview
Apichatpong Weerasethakul on Human Suffering, VR, and the Long Take
The Thai director discusses his dreamlike films in a conversation with Hyperallergic ahead of his career retrospective in New York City.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Film
A Strange Hallucination Plagues Tilda Swinton in Memoria
The newest feature from Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul is a masterpiece of magical realism, and Hyperallergic’s #1 film of 2021.
Film
Jafar Panahi, Laura Poitras, and Other Filmmakers Reflect on the Pandemic Year
The seven shorts of the anthology The Year of the Everlasting Storm are impressively varied, given the constraints under which they were made.
Film
Reimagining Cinema from Nature's Perspective
The "Animistic Apparatus" program at this year's Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival explored the natural world as a potential audience.
Film
New York Film Festival Recap
If the 53rd New York Film Festival is any indication, the world’s filmmakers are feeling the heat.
Film
An Homage to Thailand’s History and Elegy for Its Future
The films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul are inspired by a poetics of everyday life poised between two extremes.
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Announcement
[Sponsor] Sundays in July, Experience Some of the Decade’s Most Exciting Avant-Garde Films
Don’t miss this rare opportunity to experience 30 beautiful, provocative, and poetic avant-garde films that are part of “21st Century Limited: Experimental Films 2000-2009” on July 18th and 25th. Drawn from Film Comment magazine’s best-of-the-decade poll, six Sunday programs in July will showcase some of the most memorable