For "Tomorrow For Tonight": Karma, Kinship and Queerness in the Cinema and Video Art of Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The internationally circulating films and installation art of Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul open up new avenues for queerness. Their queerness lies not only in the interspecies, supernatural, and geontological elements of the stories that they tell but hails also from the director's pro...
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| 格式: | 电子 文件 |
| 语言: | English |
| Check availability: | HBZ Gateway |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2025
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| In: |
Contemporary buddhism
Year: 2024, 卷: 25, 发布: 1/2, Pages: 54-77 |
| Further subjects: | B
queer cinema
B queer karma B Buddhist kinship B Buddhist relationality B ethics of care |
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| 总结: | The internationally circulating films and installation art of Thai auteur Apichatpong Weerasethakul open up new avenues for queerness. Their queerness lies not only in the interspecies, supernatural, and geontological elements of the stories that they tell but hails also from the director's proficiency in mobilising Buddhist motifs for new imaginings of same-sex desire and opposite-sex alliances. It is notions of karma and rebirth that centrally account for such possibility. Apichatpong's cinema and art draw on both an ultimate, nibbanic (prescriptive and doctrinal) dimension of Buddhist teaching as well as on more proximate, samsaric (everyday and vernacular) understandings of Theravada Buddhism. Rather than for religious instruction, both dimensions of Buddhist thought are deployed to wholly other ends - namely, to queer notions of personhood and relationality. With its examination of Apichatpong's work, this article aims to shed light on an alternative queer imaginary that issues from Southeast Asia. It mines Thai-Buddhist imaginaries for alternative perspectives on the relation to the other: Apichatpong Weerasethakul invents cinematic, affective and conceptual languages that exceed the boundaries of the notions of queer personhood and relational form that we have hitherto been able to imagine. |
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| ISSN: | 1476-7953 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Contemporary buddhism
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1080/14639947.2025.2456884 |
