Fireworks (Archives)

Fireworks (Archives) — Plot

This film depicts Bunleua Sulilat’s temple/sculpture garden 'Sala Keoku', located in northern Thailand. Passages of blackness sporadically dissolve under the fitful internal illumination of sparklers, which light up to reveal Sulilat’s unorthodox temple populated with a fantastical concrete menagerie of beasts and figures; the sculptures range from the broad, whale-like contours of a frog’s face, to a cavalcade of dogs on mopeds, to a pair of skeletons partially embracing as if sitting for a double portrait. These images are interspersed with those of an older Thai couple mysteriously wandering around the temple like wraiths, the woman’s plodding progress hampered by the use of crutches.

• Release date
• May 17, 2014
• Runtime
• 7 min
• Director
• Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Fireworks (Archives) — Cast

Jenjira Pongpas Banlop Lomnoi