The film crew set out on an expedition across thailand, from the north to the south, documenting several lives along the way. Mysterious object at noon premiered in january 2000 at the international film festival rotterdam, having received support from the hubert bals fund in 1998. Mysterious object at noon apichatpong weerasethakul bandeannonce films capricci. Mysterious object at noon is an especially vivid example of the hybrid tendency that has galvanized so much of contemporary world cinema. Mysterious object at noon was restored in 20 by the austrian film museum and the cineteca di bolognalimmagine ritrovata laboratory, in association with the film foundations world cinema project, listo laboratory in vienna, technicolor ltd. Structured roughly as a chain story, the film is a loose assembly of interviewees chosen. Mysterious object at noon film by weerasethakul 2000. In the 1930s, american psychic edgar cayce claimed that in 1968 or 1969 the ruins of the lost city of atlantis would be found in bimini in september 1968, 700 meters of neatly placed limestone blocks were found in the sea near paradise point in northern bimini. Setting out on a northsouth expedition across thailand, the film crew asks each subject to continue a story started by the prior subject but with total freedom of. Thai independent filmmaker apichatpong weerasethakul used this technique to interview people throughout thailand, asking them to contribute to the films. Mysterious object at noon an extraordinary trip through the landscapes and mindscapes of rural thailand, designed as a surrealist game. Chicken run 2 streaming vf complet en hd papystreaming 2019. A mysterious object it is, right between fiction and documentary, which i enjoyed above all.
Mysterious object at noon apichatpong weerasethakul. As the nascent thai cinema struggles to establish an identity on the world stage, weerasethakul has emerged as its most promising young star, a playful and wildly idiosyncratic director who seems to be discovering his style as he goes. Other articles where mysterious object at noon is discussed. A film crew travels from the thai countryside to bangkok, asking the people they encounter along the way to expand upon a story involving a wheelchairbound young boy. As with the work of many of todays most adventurous filmmakerspedro costa, carlos reygadas, and miguel gomes, to name a fewapichatpongs films rewire the relationship between fiction and documentary. The inspiration for mysterious object at noon was the surrealist storytelling technique known as exquisite corpse, wherein a variety of writers would contribute to an ongoing story one sentence at a time, largely oblivious to what came before.
Its structure was based on exquisite corpse, a parlour game adapted by the surrealists in the early 20th century in which each player contributed to the making of a sentence without knowing what preceding players had written. Mysterious object at noon at eye film in amsterdam eye. The strangest film ive seen in some time is an experimental docudrama from thailand called mysterious object at noon, directed by apichatpong weerasethakul, a thai architect who has an mfa in film from the school of the art institute of chicago which, when you think about it, is a great town for an architect to go to in order to study film. Le film mysterious object at noon 2000 vostfr admin 20170614t21. Regarder le film mysterious object at noon 2000 en.
Mysterious object at noon, the debut feature from apichatpong weerasethakul, is without a doubt one of the most exciting pieces of film ive encountered in a long while. Mysterious object at noon gives us a unique look at thailand, but especially its people. The capper for me, apichatpong weerasethakuls debut film, mysterious object at noon 2000, is not at all perfect it cant be, because life and time and people are imperfect, and because the film itself tries not to be a real film at all, fiction or doc. A 96 cinema factory production in association with the thai film foundation and the hubert bals foundation. A film crew documents a folk storyexquisite corpse combination by random thai people. What starts off as a drama is transformed into fantasy, horror and romance. Mysterious object at noon is a 2000 thai independent experimental documentary film directed by apichatpong weerasethakul. Mysterious metallic object uncovered on rhode island beach. Purists may hesitate to label it a documentary as the film melds documentary footage and interviews with.
Joe has since 2000 almost systematically integrated elements of reality in his work, the hospital for instance is autobiographical and comes in syndrome and a century, in cemetary of splendour etc. It is a film made with little domestic influence, austere in its appearance. Cnna part from a secret military project, a lost piece of oceanographic equipment, a piece of a ufo theres lots of speculation after a mysterious object was. It has been described as a cinematic equivalent of the surrealist game of exquisite corpse, where multiple artists would collaborate on a drawing or story without being shown anything other. Mysterious object at noon directed by apichatpong weerasethakul trailer edited by michael scheer mysterious object at noon trailer, 426 on vimeo join. This box, which sits on my desk in london, contains the fragments that will go to make up the central part of shubigi raos collaboration with katriona beales. Mysterious object at noon is a documentary of sorts, although its observing a situation that wouldnt exist without the film crews intervention. Apichatpong weerasethakul in mysterious object at noon 2000 mysterious. Le film mysterious object at noon 2000 vostfr film complet.
Mysterious object at noon 2000 mysterious object at. Part fiction, part documentary, and part pseudodocumentary about several unrelated lives, mysterious object at noon was shot without a conventional script using the surrealist game of exquisite corpse as its unifying premise. Mysterious object at noon is part fiction, part documentary, and part pseudodocumentary about several unrelated lives in thailand. Mysterious object at noon is fascinating not for its conclusiveness which it inevitably lacks but its construction. Apichatpongs hallucinatory debut feature mysterious object at noon is an experimental documentary mix that wends its way through the landscapes and mindscapes of rural thailand. The more people the director portrays, the more complex and bizarre the story becomes. Thai independent filmmaker apichatpong weerasethakul used this technique to interview people. Review by jake cole a game of exquisite corpse mixes documentary and fiction in strange, beguiling ways, but not ones that particularly point to joes future career as a master of. First off, i love that all of apichatpong weerasethakuls films seem connected in one way or another, whether it be the reference to the character of uncle boonmee in tropical malady, or the long, backwardspov driving scene in blissfully yours, reminiscent of the style of direction in his previousdebut feature, mysterious object at noon. Right off the bat, apichatpong weerasethakuls mysterious object at noon. Mysterious object at noon digital restoration before. Weerasethakuls film is like a piece of chamber music slowly, deftly expanding into a full symphonic movement.
A film crew documents a folk storyexquisite corpse combination by random thai. Some think these are the remains of the famous civilization. Examples of the digital restoration of mysterious object at noon, by apichatpong weerasetakul, restored in 2012 by adriana noviello and matteo lepore for the austrian film. Mysterious object at noon 2000 the criterion collection. For his debut feature, the semidocumentary mysterious object at noon 2000, he and his crew travelled across thailand, enlisting a crosssection of citizens in a. Restored in 20 by the austrian film museum and the cineteca di. The film crew travels from the thai countryside to bangkok, asking the people they encounter along the way to continue a story about a handicapped boy and his teacher. Mysterious object at noon was restored in 20 by the austrian film museum and the cineteca di bolognalimmagine ritrovata laboratory, in association with. While the thai genre movies of his youth made a mark, so did the. With djuangjai hirunsri, kongkiat khomsiri, saisiri xoomsai. Regarder mysterious object at noon 2000 en streaming vf. It had its north american premiere at the vancouver international film festival, where it won a special citation dragons and tigers award.
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