Teem

Thailand / Japan 2007
3 screen installation, various lengths, loops / Digital (filmed on mobile phone), NTSC 4:3 Vertical, Silent / Colour

• Director / Camera / Editor Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• Cast Chaisiri Jiwarangsan
• Producer Tomo Suzuki

Commissioned by and first presented at the Pocket Film Festival, Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, 7–9 December 2007

• Medium Vodaphone mobile
  TEEM Nov 20, 9:53 minutes
  TEEM Nov 21, 22:38 minutes
  TEEM Nov 22, 27:31 minutes

Each video is each morning portrait of Teem, the filmmaker’s partner. As winter approached in Thailand, Teem informed Apichatpong that he would start to hibernate until February 2008. As a result, the man sleeps a lot during this time. Apichatpong observed and sometimes disrupted his partner’s mission with a mobile phone.