Empire

Empire is a film about searching and finding. There are, first of all, the things we can see: a diver wearing a gleaming white helmet, a cave or grotto the walls of which the Camera carefully travels along and finally a hand dipping into the sand to pick up some shells, playfully sliding them through the fingers. The images are accompanied by a polyphonous drone, rattle and clank whose origins remain in the dark. Has the diver been looking for something and someone else has found it? Possibly.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul once again leaves it up to his viewers’ imagination to...