From Thailand to Colombia: soundscapes of a violent past in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria (2021)

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dc.contributor.authorPérez-Osorio, Javieren
dc.contributor.editorAlexander, Lawrenceen
dc.contributor.editorPérez-Osorio, Javieren
dc.date.accessioned2025-11-11T13:12:26Z
dc.date.available2025-11-11T13:12:26Z
dc.date.issued2025-10-23en
dc.description.abstractMemoria (2021) is Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s first film made outside his native Thailand. The director’s geographical origin, the Colombian setting, and the extensive international funding make the film a singular transnational production. The global and local elements embedded in both the narrative and the production history open a space for critical examination of the geopolitical interconnections between the Global North and South, and between two diverse Global South countries—Thailand and Colombia. Considering the film as a crossroads of different discourses, I analyse its innovative approach to the Colombian context, seeing it as the result of a journey of several months made by the director through the country, a dynamism later echoed both by the mobility of the main character and by the singular model of exhibition chosen for the film. I propose that the perspective of a foreign auteur from a different Global South context offers a novel view on Colombian collective memory of historical violence. I further explore how this transnational blend is echoed in the film’s meticulous sound editing and meditative framing. Finally, I suggest how Memoria transposes local trauma into a broader idiom of “global” art cinema, reformulating the exchanges shaping Latin American international coproductions.en
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dc.identifier.citationPérez-Osorio, J. (2025) 'From Thailand to Colombia: soundscapes of a violent past in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria (2021)', Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, 29–30, pp. 203–219. https://doi.org/10.33178/alpha.2930.11en
dc.identifier.doi10.33178/alpha.2930.11en
dc.identifier.endpage219en
dc.identifier.issued29-30
dc.identifier.journaltitleAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.identifier.startpage203en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/18181
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherFilm and Screen Media, University College Corken
dc.relation.ispartofAlphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Mediaen
dc.rights© 2025, the Author(s). This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.en
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectApichatpong Weerasethakulen
dc.subjectColombian cinemaen
dc.subjectLatin American cinemaen
dc.subjectSounden
dc.subjectGlobal Southen
dc.titleFrom Thailand to Colombia: soundscapes of a violent past in Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Memoria (2021)en
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
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