Nocturnal Fabulations: Ecology, Vitality and Opacity in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Author(s)
Bordeleau, Érik
Pape, Toni
Rose-Antoinette, Ronald
Szymanski, Adam
Language
EnglishAbstract
Nocturnal Fabulations is an essay in intercessing. This is not a book that is simply ‘about’ Apichatpong Weerasethakul, though it does engage his work in detail. It is a book that deeply questions what else might be at stake in setting up the conditions for collaboration across two genres: cinema and writing. This collective project is animated by a shared curiosity in the pragmatics of fabulation and its speculative gesture of bringing forth a people to come. In an encounter with Apichatpong’s cinematic dreamscape, the concepts of ecology, vitality and opacity emerge to articulate an ethos of fabulation that deframes experience, recomposes subjectivity and unfixes time.
Keywords
experience; subjectivity; cinema; ecology; pragmatics of fabulation; time; writing; opacity; vitality; apichatpong weerasethakul; Aesthetics; Alterity; Decoupage; Félix Guattari; Gilles Deleuze; Mysterious Object at Noon; Ontology; ThailandDOI
10.26530/OAPEN_630752ISBN
9781785420412OCN
992558178Publisher
Open Humanities PressPublication date and place
2017Series
Immediations,Classification
Film history, theory or criticism
Individual film directors, film-makers