Garage Screen and the Moscow International Experimental Film Festival (MIEFF). Early films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Date

Schedule

22:00–00:00

Place

Garage Screen summer cinema

DESCRIPTION

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art and the Moscow International Experimental Film Festival (MIEFF) present a mini-retrospective of the early films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul, the winner of the Palme d'Or prize, including his short films and his first full-length film Mysterious Object at Noon.

Apichatpong Weerasethakul (b. 1970, Bangkok) started creating experimental films and video installations while studying at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, from which he graduated in 1997, receiving a master's degree in Fine Arts and Filmmaking. His first full-length film, Mysterious Object at Noon, premiered at the Rotterdam Film Festival in 2000, and his second full-length film, Blissfully Yours won the top prize in the Un Certain Regard program at the 55th Cannes Film Festival in 2002.

In 2010, Weerasethakul received the Cannes Festival’s highest award—the Palme d'Or prize—for the film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives. The film Syndromes and a Century, shown at the 63rd Venice Film Festival, was the first Thai film to be included in the contest program of this festival. From 1999–2008, Weerasethakul co-organized the Bangkok Festival of Experimental Cinema. His films were also shown at numerous art exhibitions, including the 7th Istanbul Biennale (2001), the 10th and 11th Sharjah Biennale (UAE, 2011, 2013), dOCUMENTA (13) (Kassel, 2012), the 20th Sydney Biennale (2016), and the 14th Lyon Biennale (2017). In 2016, the Tate Gallery held a retrospective of the director's films, and in the autumn of 2017, the exhibition Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Kao Guimaranis opens at the Amsterdam Film Museum EYE.

ABOUT MIEFF

MIEFF is an international showcase platform welcoming up-and-coming as well as experienced filmmakers from around the world. It will lay the groundwork for a new generation of artists in our country, facilitate interdisciplinary dialogue, and engage a wider creative young audience with this minor and brave approach in seeing things differently in film.

Moscow International Experimental Film Festival was held in the space of the Trekhgornaya Manufactory for the first time in the summer of 2016. The festival program consisted of fifty-four competitive works from eighteen countries. It included the works of Russian artists Pavel Pepperstein, Polina Kannis, and Evgeny Granilshchikov, a performance by the actors from "Masterskaya Brusnikina", and musicians of the new academic scene under the leadership of Kyril Shirokov.

TICKETS

Garage Screen tickets price 300 RUB.

Concessions for visitors with disabilities 150 RUB.

Carer’s tickets 150 RUB.

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Schedule

Short films by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

The first evening will feature selected experimental films by Weerasethakul.

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Date
Friday, July 21  
Time
22:00–00:00
Place
Garage Screen summer cinema

Mysterious Object at Noon

On the second evening, we will show a restored version of Weerasethakul’s first full-length film Mysterious Object at Noon.

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Date
Saturday, July 22
Time
22:00–23:30
Place
Garage Screen summer cinema