Durmiente & async
Durmiente
- Format Single-Channel Video
HD 1440 x 1080, 4:3, 11:03 minutes, Silent, Color
(from 35mm) - Year 2021
- Format Single-Channel Video
HD 1440 x 1080, 4:3, 11:03 minutes, 5.1 Dolby, Color
(Shot with Digital Harinezumi) - Year 2017
- Music Ryuichi Sakamoto
With a poem by Arseny Tarkovsky, narrated by David Sylvian.
Durmiente is a satellite video from Apichatpong feature films, Memoria. It features an intimate scene which does not appear in the final film, the moment when the lead character (Tilda Swinton) falls asleep, signifying of the end of her journey in Colombia. Durmiente is created to accompany async - first light (2017), as an homage to an act of crossing borders. Both films lead us from daylight into night, wakefulness to dreaming. The periphery of fact and fiction disintegrates.
async – first light is a collaboration between Apichatpong and composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, with combined tracks from his album “async”. The natural and artificial lights bloom in various settings, at the artist’s home and abroad. Apichatpong also sent small cameras to friends and asked them to shoot themselves, loved ones, sleeping.
first light represents a journey and a yearn for inter-connectedness through light, cinema, and dreams.
