Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Tilda Swinton on Memoria | NYFF59

Director Apichatpong Weerasethakul and actress Tilda Swinton discuss Memoria, a Main Slate selection at NYFF59, with NYFF Director of Programming Dennis Lim.

Collective and personal ghosts hover over every frame of Memoria, somehow the grandest yet most becalmed of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s works. Inspired by the Thai director’s own memories and those of people he encountered while traveling across Colombia, the film follows Jessica (a wholly immersed Tilda Swinton), an expat botanist visiting her hospitalized sister in Bogotá; while there, she becomes ever more disturbed by an abyssal sound that haunts her sleepless nights and bleary-eyed days, compelling her to seek help in identifying its origins. Thus begins a personal journey that’s also historical excavation, in a film of profound serenity that, like Jessica’s sound, lodges itself in the viewer’s brain as it traverses city and country, climaxing in an extraordinary extended encounter with a rural farmer that exists on a precipice between life and death. Winner of the Jury Prize at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. A NEON release.

[samarthgrover]

Apichatpong is helping me survive ❤
He's so eloquently filling and perhaps improving the gap I've felt after finishing tarkovsky's cinema

[loltheworld]

I can't believe how quickly the interviewer said "Apichatpong Weerasethakul" in the intro.

[JapiSandhu]

Memoria changed my life, most meditative film I have ever seen.

LETSDOSOMETHING

[sosofilms]

love this person, one of the most interesting filmmaker today

[StreamlineFilm]

Wow! Thx u so much for the awesome Q&A clip <3

[pradeephistory]

Love you Apichat
Watching Memoria in IFFI Goa

[abhiezibran]

Iv been looking for an explanation video or article on the film. cant find any.

[BIGBIRD]

I wish I could appreciate this film but I feel it’s a bit beyond my grasp in terms of taste.

I was so excited to watch this and I was left feeling empty, whereas Uncle Boonme left me with a strange warmth and understanding of Thai culture.

I won’t get into spoiler territory but I wish the themes were explored way more as it came across as more of a modern art exhibit, displaying one frame at a time, fragmented but connected but ultimately not the payoff I was hoping for.

[tomgirldouble]

Sounds wonderful but no cinema near to me to go see this, though I understand why it has to be shown in that environment 🤔

[AleksPragaSant]

Why won't anyone tell about the plot from K. castaneda?

[wasantube]

i didn't understand the ending :(

[janllh]

Hoped there might be a question about the UFO

[toikissa]

I didnt like the Memoria but I can see why many people think its a masterpiece.

[brenomatos]

Alguém por favor legende esse vídeo em português Brasil. Please 🙏

[hartalkjunke]

How difficult can it be to find someone with basic understanding in audio engineering?

[space_]

For those who don't know, the only way to ever see the film, (as of now), is to catch it in a small theatre as it tours around the United States only, and It will apparently never be streamable or sold online. How incredibly pretentious and inconvenient. Every filmmaker, regardless of their track record in cinema, should be making it as easy as possible for fans to see their films.

[velvetclaw]

The film was so inert. I was intensely bored. I just didn’t care about shy of it. I love slow films, Tarkovsky is a favourite, but a 7 minute shot of a car park really tried my patience. what is that supposed to signify ? Films like this try to convince you of their own importance by being excruciatingly slow and ponderous. I’m not convinced. It felt incredibly contrived, I could practically hear it being discussed before bit was made.

[chloetheragdollkitten]

This was the worst film I've ever watched. If you don't believe me then watch it yourself.