Nocturnal Fabulations: Ecology, Vitality and Opacity in the Cinema of Apichatpong Weerasethakul

by Toni Pape Erik Bordeleau, Toni Pape Erik Bordeleau, Adam Szymanski Ronald Rose-Antoinette

Nocturnal Fabulations is an essay in intercessing. This is not a book that is simply 'about' Apichatpong Weerasethakul, though it does engage his work in detail. It is a book that deeply questions what else might be at stake in setting up the conditions for collaboration across two genres - cinema and writing.

This collective project by Erik Bordeleau, Toni Pape, Ronald Rose-Antoinette and Adam Szymanski is animated by a shared curiosity in the pragmatics of fabulation and its speculative gesture of bringing forth a people to come. In an encounter with Apichatpong's cinematic dreamscape, the concepts of ecology, vitality and opacity emerge to articulate an ethos of fabulation that deframes experience, recomposes subjectivity and unfixes time.

Genres: Film

270 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2017

Reviews

[Tereza Dodoková · Rating 5 out of 5]

„[Thus cinema can be a phantom in this sense]: because it's something that you really need to dream. Cinema is a vehicle we produce for ourselves and as part of us. It's like an extension of our soul that manifests itself. “

[drill · Rating 4 out of 5]

wonderfully conceptualized... like truly delightful analyses.... - i jusr wish i understood deleuze better.... i will be rereading once i get my mento-philosophic swag up...........🙇‍♀️🔁🔁

[Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart · Rating 1 out of 5]

Bro your book sucks ass, especially Ronald Rose-Antoinette, learn to write pls or shut up