Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The desk that fear
decemberdec 18 - january – jan 18
© Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Le bureau qui avait peur ©
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, The Desk That Fear, 2024, 17 min
"Where do you stand?" is a collection initiated by the Centre Pompidou which, since 2014, has commissioned each guest filmmaker to make a home-made, free-form film with which to answer this retrospective, introspective, forward-looking question. This film was made as part of the retrospective devoted to the filmmaker by the Centre Pompidou from 2 October to 9 November, in partnership with the Festival d'Automne in Paris.
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To accompany the end of the exhibition Night Particules, Apichatpong Weerasethakul answers the question ‘Where do you stand? in this short film, portraying his office, his working environment, his research and creative gestures.
The desk that fear is an exegesis of a few lines by the contemporary Thai poet Uten Mahamid, and shows how the filmmaker and artist draws on them and other works to create a work of fiction. This short film accompanies the end of the Night Particles exhibition at the Pavillon Brancusi, and the mothballing of the Centre Pompidou's cinemas while work is carried out throughout the building.
