Films of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Anik Sarkar is Assistant Professor at Salesian College Siliguri. He has contributed to books such as Environmental Postcolonialism (Lexington Books, 2021), Indian Feminist Ecocriticism (Lexington Books, 2022) and the book shortlisted for the recent BSLS book prize: Science Fiction in India (Bloomsbury, 2022). He recently published “In Search of a Pathographical Ecopoetics” in the Journal of Ecohumanism, and has a forthcoming monograph titled Fabulating Ecologies (Lexington Books). Jayjit Sarkar is an Assistant Professor at the Department of English, Raiganj University, India. He is the author of the monograph Illness as Method: Beckett, Kafka, Mann, Woolf and Eliot (Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2019). He is also the co-editor of books such as Border and Bordering: Poetics, Politics, Precariousness (Stuttgart: ibidem Press, 2020) and The Portrait of an Artist as a Pathographer: On Writing Illnesses and Illnesses in Writing (Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press, 2021). He has also written for India Independent Films Live Wire, Newslaundry, and We the World magazine.

• AcknowledgementsIntroduction Open Cinema: The Films and Installations of Apichatpong WeerasethakulAnik Sarkar and Jayjit SarkarTime1.Time, Social Reproduction and the Precarious Body in the Films of Apichatpong WeerasethakulPatricia Sequeira Brás2.Representing Memory through Slowness: the Time-Images of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Syndromes and a Century and Cemetery of SplendourFrancesco QuarioNon-human3.Stray Dogs and Strange Beasts: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Queer Animal EthicsDuncan Caillard4.Imagining the Nonhuman in the cinema of Apichatpong WeerasethakulÇağatay Emre DoğanMind5.The Stillness Wandering Within: Notes on the Caesura of the Cinematic Image in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Primitive ProjectElizabeth Sikes6.Dreams, Abstractions and Spectatorship in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Films and VideosAlessandro Ferraro7.EFFULGENCES Particles in Motion: Cycling the Mindscapes of Apichatpong WeerasethakulJeffner AllenForms and Representations8.Transmedia Plot in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s PrimitiveJade de Cock de Rameyen9.Home Away From Home: Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Filmed Images of Home and Homeland EnvisionedPalita Chunsaengchan10.Between an Erased Past and an Uncertain Future: Hybrid Forms in the Films of Apichatpong WeerasethakulSivaranjini11.Post-Interstitial Authorship in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s CinemaAnchalee ChaiworapornNote on the ContributorsIndex