Archipelago Cinema is a
collaboration between Studio Ole Scheeren and the Film on the Rocks Yao Noi
Foundation, founded by Nat Sarasas, Chomwan Weeraworawit and Apichatpong
Weerasethakul. It is the first project of Studio Ole Scheeren since he
established his architecture practice, Buro Ole Scheeren, in Beijing and Hong
Kong in 2010.
With Archipelago Cinema, Ole
Scheeren further explores his continued interest in non-architectural projects
and interventions, and in creating alternative scenarios and realities by
combining an ability to comprehend diverse yet specific contexts with the power
of imagination and fantasy. Previous projects by Ole Scheeren which transcend
the boundaries of architectural production include, among others, the Marfa
Drive-In (a drive-in cinema in the desert of Texas), and the exhibition Cities
on the Move, which Ole Scheeren co-curated and scenographed in Bangkok in 1999.
The final night of the first Film on
the Rocks Yao Noi took place on Archipelago Cinema, designed by German-born and
Beijing-based architect Ole Scheeren. Guests were taken by boat through
the darkness of the sea to arrive on a glowing raft in the middle of the quiet
waters of Nai Pi Lae lagoon on Kudu Island. Surrounded by a dramatic landscape
of towering rocks emerging from the ocean, the audience experienced an
atmospheric convergence of nature and cinematic narratives – primordial notions
of light, sound and stories suspended in the darkness between sea and sky.
Ready to go check it out!??
