Meet the ‘David Lynch of Thailand’ and his queer, surrealist cinema

In November, fans around the world rejoiced at the news of a new David Lynch Netflix project, Wisteria, commencing production in 2021. While we wait in anticipation, a filmmaker dubbed the “Thai David Lynch” nears the completion of his English language debut.

Memoria will star Tilda Swinton as a woman who begins noticing strange noises while travelling in Colombia – while it’s his first English venture, the director is no small fry. Apichatpong Weerasethakul is one of the only Thai filmmakers to work outside his country’s restrictive and conservative studio system, and his transgressions made history in 2010 when he won the coveted Palme d’Or at Cannes for the spiritualising art film…