Author Duncan Caillard

Duncan Caillard

Duncan Caillard is a PhD candidate in Screen and Cultural Studies at the University of Melbourne. His doctoral research adapts auteur theory to address empty space, silence and inactivity in contemporary art cinema, with a focus on independent filmmaking in Southeast Asia.

His Particle, Somewhere: Mekong Hotel (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2012)

Duncan Caillard

June 2021

CTEQ Annotations on Film

Apichatpong’s father died in 2003, and his ashes were spread in the Mekong. During an interview for this year’s Berlinale, for which the director called-in from a hotel in Nakhon Panom, a small town on the Meko...