Phantoms
Apichatpong Weerasethakul / Netherlands & Thailand / 2025 / International Premiere / 11 min
Apichatpong Weerasethakul's film featuring Tilda Swinton visits her at her family's home in the Scottish countryside, allowing two images to overlap in a simple but immensely suggestive gesture.
Tilda Swinton wanders around her family’s home in the Scottish countryside. The familiar (and very beautiful) surroundings envelop her with a slight aura of something foreign and unreal, while with just a single sentence she intervenes in the stream of luminous images and gives them a whole new, inner meaning. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s work is shot on analog film and consists of a simple but immensely effective technique of allowing two separate images to overlap, thus evoking a ghostly atmosphere of timelessness in the classic and elegant rooms. The work was originally created as a double-channel installation for the exhibition ‘Tilda Swinton – Ongoing’ at the Eye Film Museum in Amsterdam.
