Dirty Pictures Framing Pollution and Desire in ‘new New Queer Cinema’
In an interview to mark the release of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), Apichatpong Weerasethakul told Steve Rose that: His next project involves his heroine, Tilda Swinton. It concerns the Mekong river, he explains, and will address the relationship between man and water, the cat...
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| Published in | Screening Nature p. 145 |
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| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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Berghahn Books
01.11.2013
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| Edition | NED - New edition, 1 |
| Online Access | Get full text |
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| Summary: | In an interview to mark the release of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives (2010), Apichatpong Weerasethakul told Steve Rose that:
His next project involves his heroine, Tilda Swinton. It concerns the Mekong river, he explains, and will address the relationship between man and water, the catastrophic flooding which is blamed on Chinese dams and diseases spread by industrial-scale pig farming. None of which particularly brings to mind Tilda Swinton. ‘It’s definitely not going to be a film that will just have a foreign movie star for the sake of it. It’s going to be an exchange of |
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| ISBN: | 9781782382263 1782382267 |
| DOI: | 10.1515/9781800732957-011 |