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. Structured roughly as a chain story, the film is a loose assembly of interviewees chosen. 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. While the thai genre movies of his youth made a mark, so did the. Mysterious object at noon 2000 the criterion collection. Regarder mysterious object at noon 2000 film complete vf. 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. 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. Regarder le film mysterious object at noon 2000 en. Mysterious object at noon is a 2000 thai independent experimental documentary film directed by apichatpong weerasethakul. It is a film made with little domestic influence, austere in its appearance.
A 96 cinema factory production in association with the thai film foundation and the hubert bals foundation. Right off the bat, apichatpong weerasethakuls mysterious object at noon. 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. Restored in 20 by the austrian film museum and the cineteca di. Weerasethakuls film is like a piece of chamber music slowly, deftly expanding into a full symphonic movement.
Mysterious object at noon an extraordinary trip through the landscapes and mindscapes of rural thailand, designed as a surrealist game. Mysterious object at noon at eye film in amsterdam eye. Mysterious object at noon is fascinating not for its conclusiveness which it inevitably lacks but its construction. 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. A mysterious object it is, right between fiction and documentary, which i enjoyed above all. Regarder mysterious object at noon 2000 en streaming vf. 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.
Mysterious object at noon is an especially vivid example of the hybrid tendency that has galvanized so much of contemporary world cinema. 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. Thai independent filmmaker apichatpong weerasethakul used this technique to interview people. Regarder en streaming sur votre mobile ios et android. Some think these are the remains of the famous civilization.
Le film mysterious object at noon 2000 vostfr admin 20170614t21. 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 2000 mysterious object at. The more people the director portrays, the more complex and bizarre the story becomes. A film crew documents a folk storyexquisite corpse combination by random thai. With djuangjai hirunsri, kongkiat khomsiri, saisiri xoomsai. Mysterious object at noon film by weerasethakul 2000. 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.
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. 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. 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. Mysterious object at noon is part fiction, part documentary, and part pseudodocumentary about several unrelated lives in thailand. Mysterious object at noon established the directors fascination with the porous. Mysterious object at noon was restored in 20 by the austrian film museum and the cineteca di bolognalimmagine ritrovata laboratory, in association with. Mysterious object at noon gives us a unique look at thailand, but especially its people. Other articles where mysterious object at noon is discussed. Mysterious object at noon directed by apichatpong weerasethakul trailer edited by michael scheer mysterious object at noon trailer, 426 on vimeo join. Mysterious object at noon digital restoration before. 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. 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 apichatpong weerasethakul. 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. 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. 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. Mysterious object at noon is a documentary of sorts, although its observing a situation that wouldnt exist without the film crews intervention. The film crew set out on an expedition across thailand, from the north to the south, documenting several lives along the way.
Purists may hesitate to label it a documentary as the film melds documentary footage and interviews with. 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. 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. What starts off as a drama is transformed into fantasy, horror and romance. Sink argentinas carrier 1982 the secret british falklands war mission duration. Mysterious object at noon apichatpong weerasethakul bandeannonce films capricci. Mysterious metallic object uncovered on rhode island beach. Le film mysterious object at noon 2000 vostfr film complet. Chicken run 2 streaming vf complet en hd papystreaming 2019. Thai independent filmmaker apichatpong weerasethakul used this technique to interview people throughout thailand, asking them to contribute to the films. Apichatpong weerasethakul in mysterious object at noon 2000 mysterious. A film crew documents a folk storyexquisite corpse combination by random thai people.
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