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Phantoms
THAILAND · 2025

Phantoms

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
memory and time domestic spaces split-screen narrative presence and absence Scottish landscape
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Synopsis

An intimate, deeply personal film featuring footage Weerasethakul shot of Swinton in and around her family home in Scotland, this overlapping split screen film is inspired by Margaret Tait’s film "Portrait of Ga" and the films of Hitchcock. The work that emerges is a meditative, dreamlike space - a haunting, transformative encounter blending past and present, presence and absence. Presented at the

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