Thailand’s Top Avant-Garde Filmmaker Ventures Into Visual Art

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, who won a Palme d’Or at Cannes for Uncle Boonmee Who Can Remember His Past Lives, has an installation in Beijing that depicts – in video, sound and still photography – a woman “recovering from surgery on her legs after a motorcycle accident, right before she goes to sleep with a stranger visiting her” at home by the Mekong River.