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async – first light

async – first light

2017 · 11:03 min.

  • Format Single-channel video, HD 1920 × 1080
    4:3 image within a 16:9 frame (shot with Digital Harinezumi)
  • Length 11:03 minutes
  • Sound 5.1
  • Colour Colour
  • Year 2017
  • Music Ryuichi Sakamoto
  • Poem Arseny Tarkovsky, narrated by David Sylvian
  • First exhibited Ryuichi Sakamoto: async, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, April 4 – May 28, 2017

async – first light is a collaboration between Apichatpong and the composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, built on combined tracks from Sakamoto’s album async. Natural and artificial lights bloom in settings at the artist’s home and abroad. Apichatpong also sent small cameras to friends and asked them to film themselves and their loved ones sleeping. The work is a journey, and a yearning for connection through light, cinema and dreams.

The film includes a poem by Arseny Tarkovsky, read by David Sylvian.

Installation view, async – first light (2017), Ryuichi Sakamoto + Apichatpong Weerasethakul, in seeing sound, hearing time, M WOODS Hutong, Beijing, 2021. Photographs by the M WOODS photography team.

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