Festival Curated :
Apichatpong Weerasethakul Retrospective

A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (จดหมายถึงลุงบุญมี)

(Apichatpong Weerasethakul / 2008 / 17 min / Thailand, Germany, UK)

In Nabua in December 2008, I located several houses that I thought would be suitable as Uncle Boonmee’s house in the proposed feature film. This short film is a personal letter describing my Nabua to Uncle Boonmee.

The film is comprised of shots of the houses’ interiors in the evening. They are all deserted except one house with a group of young soldiers, played by some teens of Nabua. Two of them impersonate me by narrating the film.