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Fever Room
THAILAND · 2015

Fever Room

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
memory and autobiography reality versus fantasy political collapse dreamscapes collective refuge
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Synopsis

"Fever Room" features Jenjira (Jen) and Banlop (Itt), two of Apichatpong’s regular actors who also appear in his film, "Cemetery of Splendour". Like the film, this projection-performance presents the layers of reality and fantasy. Apichatpong fuses his memories with the actors’ and fictionalises the narrative. Here the people takes refuge in dreams while their land is on a brink of collapse, echoi

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