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On the occasion of his visit to Bozar in Brussels, Apichatpong Weerasethakul selects four films and the work of one painter that revolve like satellites around his latest film Memoria (2021), films or other works of art that served as an inspiration or influence, thematically or in terms of form.

This week, three films that look at the work and life of the Dutch painter Vincent Van Gogh (1853-1890). Commissioned for a Paris exhibition featuring the painter’s work, Van Gogh (1948) was Alain Resnais’s first effort in his series of short films on the subject of art. Starting from Van Gogh’s paintings, Resnais charts the artist’s self-destructive tendencies while celebrating his genius and “lust for life”, paced by a narration written by Gaston Diehl and Robert Hessens, and a score by Jacques Besse.