As a child, while other kids were playing with toys, Apichatpong Weerasethakul was content with a flashlight. “That was enough: the shadows on the wall or the blanket,” he says. “I chose to work in cinema because of that feeling of taking me back to childhood, that freedom and curiosity.”
This primal fascination with light and shadow has fuelled a career spanning three decades, across experimental features and video works, feted by the likes of the Cannes film festival and London’s Tate Modern.
