Apichatpong Weerasethakul

The desk that fear

Cinema
Centre Pompidou
decemberdec 18 - january – jan 18
Free

© Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Le bureau qui avait peur ©

Creation

17 minutes

Free entrance

Centre Pompidou

Wednesday december 18

18h

Wednesday december 18

18h30

Wednesday december 18

19h

Thursday december 19

18h

Thursday december 19

18h30

Thursday december 19

19h

Friday december 20

18h

Friday december 20

18h30

Friday december 20

19h

Saturday december 21

18h

Saturday december 21

18h30

Saturday december 21

19h

Sunday december 22

18h

Sunday december 22

18h30

Sunday december 22

19h

Monday december 23

18h

Monday december 23

18h30

Monday december 23

19h

Saturday january 4

18h

Saturday january 4

18h30

Saturday january 4

19h

Sunday january 5

18h

Sunday january 5

18h30

Sunday january 5

19h

Monday january 6

18h

Monday january 6

18h30

Monday january 6

19h

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, The Desk That Fear, 2024, 17 min

"Where do you stand?" is a collection initiated by the Centre Pompidou which, since 2014, has commissioned each guest filmmaker to make a home-made, free-form film with which to answer this retrospective, introspective, forward-looking question. This film was made as part of the retrospective devoted to the filmmaker by the Centre Pompidou from 2 October to 9 November, in partnership with the Festival d'Automne in Paris.

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To accompany the end of the exhibition Night Particules, Apichatpong Weerasethakul answers the question ‘Where do you stand? in this short film, portraying his office, his working environment, his research and creative gestures.

The desk that fear is an exegesis of a few lines by the contemporary Thai poet Uten Mahamid, and shows how the filmmaker and artist draws on them and other works to create a work of fiction. This short film accompanies the end of the Night Particles exhibition at the Pavillon Brancusi, and the mothballing of the Centre Pompidou's cinemas while work is carried out throughout the building.

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