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Producer Simon Field invites to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s season of films and installations in UK

Producer Simon Field invites to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s season of films and installations in UK

FromMedical Humanities Podcast


Producer Simon Field invites to Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s season of films and installations in UK

FromMedical Humanities Podcast

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Length:
14 minutes
Released:
Feb 23, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

In this podcast, Khalid Ali talks to Simon Field, producer of "Cemetery of Splendour", a film about a lonesome middle-age housewife who tends a soldier with sleeping sickness and falls into a hallucination.

The film is the starting point of a conversation about the work of the director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, which legacy is being showcased in the UK:

Film retrospective, Tate Modern, 6-8 April;
'Cemetry of Splendour' film, BFI Southbank, April 2016;
Visual installation 'Primitive' - The Tanks, New Tate Modern, June 2016.
Released:
Feb 23, 2016
Format:
Podcast episode

Titles in the series (89)

Medical Humanities is a leading international journal that reflects the whole field of medical humanities. Medical Humanities aims to encourage a high academic standard for this evolving and developing subject and to enhance professional and public discussion. It features original articles relevant to the delivery of healthcare, the formulation of public health policy, the experience of being ill and of caring for those who are ill, as well as case conferences, educational case studies, book, film, and art reviews, editorials, correspondence, news and notes. To ensure international relevance Medical Humanities has Editorial Board members from all around the world. http://mh.bmj.com/