Fireworks (Archives)
This film depicts Bunleua Sulilat’s temple/sculpture garden 'Sala Keoku', located in northern Thailand. Passages of blackness sporadically dissolve under the fitful internal illumination of sparklers, which light up to reveal Sulilat’s unorthodox temple populated with a fantastical concrete menagerie of beasts and figures; the sculptures range from the broad, whale-like contours of a frog’s face, to a cavalcade of dogs on mopeds, to a pair of skeletons partially embracing as if sitting for a double portrait. These images are interspersed with those of an older Thai couple mysteriously wandering around the temple like wraiths, the woman’s plodding progress hampered by the use of crutches.
- Year: 2014
- Country: Thailand
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- Studio: Kurimanzutto
- Keyword: temple, fireworks, thailand, art
- Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Cast: Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi
