Apichatpong Weerasethakul (1970-) is gaining recognition or his experimental exploration of sight and media. His work is characterized by nonlinear storytelling, and he builds upon world's that cross the boundaries between existence and fantasy, and memory and reality. The artist recreates a world that has been excluded and sidelined in the process of modernization, and based on his personal perspective, he touches on methods and memories that are the cause for social issues. Fireworks (Archives) is an installation created from archive footage created for the production of Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives, a film that deals with themes of past lives and rebirth. The footage depicts Sarakeoku, a temple and garden of sculptures located in the artist's birthplace of Isan, a region in northern Thailand that borders Laos. Said in the night, the dazzling lights of fireworks serves as a backdrop for sculptures of animals and for people. The visual experience created by light and darkness, accented by impactful explosions, serve as an “montage of sculptures and remnants that possess a ghost like memory, fragments of past lives, and images”. It serves as a device to trigger intermittent and discontinuous images. In his work, memories unfold alongside intangible elements like light and spirits. The work evokes a sense of repressed memories and entities that have disappeared therein, and it combines images of a faraway time-space to create new meaning.