Sang Sattawat
Syndromes and a Century
In seinen Arbeiten fängt Weerasethakul einfühlsam und geheimnisvoll den Zauber des Alltags ein und setzt die andauernde Vitalität magischer und spiritueller Präsenz im täglichen Leben in Bilder um. Präzise in seinem Verständnis für die fast musikalischen Rhythmen des Geschichtenerzählens sowie für Magie als einer Realität im Kino. Mit SANG SATTAWAT erkundet er das Mystische der Erinnerung: Die beiden Hauptfiguren sind seinen Eltern nachempfunden. Der erste Teil des Films – naturnah und sanft – beschäftigt sich mit der Welt der Mutter, während der zweite sich dem Leben des Vaters widmet – in kontrastierend moderner(er) Umgebung. (Nada Torucar)
Wir zeigen diesen Film in Gedenken an den Autor und Festivalmacher, Kurator und Produzenten Simon Field, der am 16. Juli 2026 verstorben ist.
The first collaboration between Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Simon Field, a long-term friend of the Viennale who tragically passed away in July, SANG SATTAWAT inaugurated one of cinema’s great director-producer relationships. It was Field’s idea to commission a film from Apichatpong for New Crowned Hope, an arts festival commemorating the 250th anniversary of Mozart’s birth. The unorthodox, wondrous result is a testament to his instinct. Apichatpong conceived SANG SATTAWAT as an ode to love and connection, refracted through memories of his parents. The first half is set in a rural hospital like the one where they worked during his childhood. Romance sparks among the staff, Buddhist monks try to score drugs without a prescription, and a dentist moonlights as a country singer, crooning about oral hygiene. Suddenly, everything relocates to a modern city hospital. The palm trees outside the windows are replaced with skyscrapers and the quaintly spartan facilities with sterile hallways and gleaming machines. As characters reappear and events recur, the play of repetition and variation suggests dichotomies—pastoral and urban, past and present, idyllic and dystopian—only to then blur their boundaries and embrace the pleasures found between them. (Giovanni Marchini Camia)
Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Auswahl): MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON (2000), BLISSFULLY YOURS (2002), THE ADVENTURE OF IRON PUSSY (2003, KO-REGIE), TROPICAL MALADY (2004), SYNDROMES AND A CENTURY (2006), UNCLE BOONMEE WHO CAN RECALL HIS PAST LIVES (2010), MEKONG HOTEL (2012), CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR (2015), MEMORIA (2021)
- Nantarat Sawaddikul
- Jaruchai Iamaram
- Sophon Pukanok
- Jenjira Pongpas
- Arkanae Cherkam
- Sakda Kaewbuadee
- Nu Nimsomboon
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
- Akritchalerm Kalayanamitr
- Koichi Shimizu
- Lee Chatametikool
- Kantee Anantagant
- Akekarat Homlaor