Author Thomas Moran

Thomas Moran

Thomas Moran is currently completing his PHD at Monash University on the work of Pedro Costa, Lav Diaz and Jia Zhangke and the notion of the death of cinema. He completed his MPhil at the University of Adelaide on the cinema of Chinese director Jia Zhangke for which he received a Dean’s Commendation Award. His research interests include world cinema, the politics of science fiction and the Dionysian impulse in contemporary art.

Blissfully Yours (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2002)

Thomas Moran

June 2021

CTEQ Annotations on Film

What does it mean to sign off a letter with the phrase blissfully yours? What would it mean to translate an afternoon of bliss into a two-hour film? Blissfully Yours is Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethak...