Independent filmmaker, screenwriter, and producer Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s video installation Morakot (Emerald), a work in the BAMPFA collection, is on view as part of the exhibition Endless Knot: Struggle and Healing in the Buddhist World. It sets two protagonists from Karl Gjellerup’s 1906 Buddhist novel The Pilgrim Kamanita against the backdrop of the Morakot, a Bangkok hotel that played host to foreign visitors during the early 1980s, a time of rapid economic development and Cambodian refugee arrivals in Thailand. Like the works by Binh Danh, Yong Soon Min, and Sopheap Pich in the exhibition, Morakot attempts to retrieve memories and people lost to geopolitical events—signaling the impermanence of the physical world and the importance of personal connections. This presentation complements BAMPFA’s spring retrospective of this renowned...