New pages are added frequently, and we acknowledge that this list is far from complete. Mysterious object at noon is fascinating not for its conclusiveness which it inevitably. Want to locate information on a documentary film, this is a good place to start. The most remarkable thing about mysterious object at noon is that you can deconstruct it pick it apart without destroying its magic. 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.
Shot on 16mm blackandwhite film, mysterious object at noon moves between interviews and scenes where the fabricated story is acted out, while the construction of the story serves as a catalyst for revealing deeper truths. Mysterious object at noon at eye film in amsterdam eye. Mysterious object at noon apichatpong weerasethakul bande. From thailand, adventures in collective storytelling.
Mysterious object at noon apichatpong weerasethakul bandeannonce films capricci. 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. Always remember dont trust the opinion of mysterious object at noon 2000 on the internet because the authors paid to write a comment. Mysterious object at noon is an especially vivid example of the hybrid tendency that has galvanized so much of contemporary world cinema. On the positive end of the spectrum, elvis mitchell proclaims in the new york times that youre likely to be utterly enchanted by this unique dish of entertainment that may be the beginning of a new art form. In terms of both action and theme, the ellipsis is everything.
Mysterious object at noon is the debut feature by thai filmmaker apichatpong weerasethakul, one of the most fascinating voices in contemporary cinema. Mukdeeprom has won international acclaim for his photography on films such as the 2010 cannes film festival winner uncle boonmee who can recall. Mysterious object at noon 2000 mysterious object at. Mysterious object at noon gives us a unique look at thailand. 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 is a documentary of sorts, although its observing a situation that wouldnt exist without the film crews intervention. This film, alongside works by the likes of chen kaige, carlos reygadas and elia suleiman, will once again grace the big screen in. Oct 29, 2007 warnings of the last days from god christian short film the days of noah have come duration. 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. The title refers to mysterious object at noon, the debut film by thai director apichatpong weerasethakul a filmmaker now seen as among the very top international film auteurs.
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 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. Jul 15, 2019 shot in fits and starts on a minuscule budget, mysterious object at noon was modeled on the exquisite corpse addanelement structure famous from french surrealism, in which drawings or texts are passed from person to person to elaborate upon, with the original materials hidden so that each a. Mysterious object at noon established the directors fascination with. Ritrovata laboratory, in association with the film foundations world cinema. Autoplay when autoplay is enabled, a suggested video will automatically. May 30, 2017 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 gives us a unique look at thailand, but especially its people. Shot in fits and starts on a minuscule budget, mysterious object at noon was modeled on the exquisite corpse addanelement structure famous from french surrealism, in which drawings or texts are passed from person to person to elaborate upon, with the original materials hidden so. Mysterious objects 25 years of hubert bals fund iffr. 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.
Its a film unlike any other, complete with a title that sounds like a. Serdar is attracted to obscure films the way i am attracted to obscure music, and his taste is impeccable. 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. In 2009 the austrian film museum published the first english language book on weerasethakul and staged a complete retrospective of the filmmakers work that same year in his first feature, the characteristics of weerasethakuls cinema are. Mysterious object at noon is fascinating not for its conclusiveness which it inevitably lacks but its construction. You can write, mysterious object at noon 2000 is a good movie, but it can be is a bad movie. Mysterious object at noon film by weerasethakul 2000. A 96 cinema factory production in association with the thai film foundation and the hubert bals foundation.
Mysterious object at noon full frame documentary film. Mysterious object at noon 2000 the criterion collection. Weerasethakuls film is like a piece of chamber music slowly, deftly expanding into a full symphonic movement. Right off the bat, apichatpong weerasethakuls mysterious object at noon. Its a film unlike any other, complete with a title that sounds like a remark that would. The film crew travels from the thai countryside to bangkok, asking. Thai filmmaker apichatpong weerasethakuls maiden feature mysterious object at noon 2000 is an instant success. Mysterious object at noon 5060114151031 bluray region b. The mysterious object at noon apichatpong weerasethakul, 2000 i have a friend named serdar.
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. While the thai genre movies of his youth made a mark, so did the. Its opening caption is once upon a time but the expectation of a fairy tale is immediately undercut with an extended take, shot from a moving vehicle, of modern bangkok. Mysterious object at noon 2000 cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. Loosely based on the game exquisite corpse, originally conceived by the surrealists, wherein the participants of the game take turns to advance a storyline, weerasethakuls film shows us the director and his crew traveling throughout rural and urban thailand, picking people at. Mysterious object at noon singapore international film. Weerasethakuls film is like a piece of chamber music slowly.
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 the liminal state between sleep and wake. News apichatpong weerasethakuls debut feature, mysterious. Mysterious object at noon is part fiction, part documentary, and part pseudodocumentary about several unrelated lives in thailand. Fittingly enough, i came in somewhere near the middle. 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. The second film in the set is apichatpong weerasethakuls mysterious object at noon. Mysterious object at noon 2000 directed by apichatpong. Mysterious object at noon apichatpong weerasethakul. That mysterious object which appeared at noon was apichatpong weerasethakul. Mysterious object at noon 2000 mysterious object at noon. Apichatpong weerasethakuls film mysterious object at noon has prompted a wide range of responses. Below you can find an overview of the hubert bals funds activities over the years, including the selections that were made by the fund, the hbffunded films that were screened at iffr, and the hbfs annual reports. 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. Mukdeeprom has won international acclaim for his photography on films such as the 2010 cannes film festival winner uncle boonmee who can recall his past lives and the 2017 academy award nominee.
In mysterious object at noon, the director apichatpong weerasethakul has devised a distinct kind of entertainment. Shot over the course of two years in 16 mm black and white, mysterious object at noon established the directors fascination with the porous boundaries between the real and the imagined. In mysterious object at noon, the director apichatpong. This unscripted film employs the surrealist concept of exquisite corpse, and sees the film crew interviewing ordinary people across thailand, with each adding their own words to a story. Every known, official documentary film website is listed in alphabetical order on this page. Apr 19, 2016 he was unlucky in one respect, however. 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 premiered in january 2000 at the international film festival rotterdam, having received support from the hubert bals fund in 1998. Mysterious object at noon directed by apichatpong weerasethakul trailer edited by michael scheer mysterious object at noon trailer, 426 on vimeo join. His two features, 2000s mysterious object at noon and 2002s blissfully yours, take such a relaxed approach to formal experimentation that they feel like poetic reveries, inviting viewers to spend time in a world that isnt chiseled by narrative. This feeling of travel through town, through country, through fiction, through reality sets you up perfectly for the film, a road movie unlike any other. Purists may hesitate to label it a documentary as the film melds documentary footage and interviews with. The capper for me, apichatpong weerasethakul s 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 weerasethakuls unique wabisabi sensibility. Filmmuseum dokfah nai meu maan mysterious object at noon.
A complete guide to all the new original series and films. The final minifeature details the restoration from a single festival print, carried out at the austrian film museum, of the version presented here. Warnings of the last days from god christian short film the days of noah have come duration. In apichatpong weerasethakul was dokfa nai meuman 2000.
Eight years after mysterious object at noon premiered at the international film festival rotterdam, and seven years from the present moment. As beginnings go, the silent cinemastyle intertitle that opens apichatpong weerasethakuls debut feature, mysterious object at noon, is especially apposite. 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. Streaming full mysterious object at noon 2000 first, once you can rate this movie. 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.
Setting out on a northsouth expedition across thailand, the film crew asks each subject to continue a story started by. Purists may hesitate to label it a documentary as the film melds documentary footage and interviews with fictional footage interspersed throughout. Opting to release the set only in a dualformat edition there are no separate dvd or bluray only editions, mysterious object at noon shares the same duallayer bluray with insiang but receives its own duallayer dvd. The film was shot in 16mm and enlarged to 35mm for international exhibition. Jan 12, 2016 mysterious object at noon apichatpong weerasethakul bandeannonce films capricci. Mysterious object at noon an extraordinary trip through the landscapes and mindscapes of rural thailand, designed as a surrealist game. Mysterious object at noon 5060114151031 bluray region b for. Mysterious object at noon is a 2000 thai independent experimental documentary film directed. Mysterious object at noon letterboxd your life in film. Mysterious object at noon 2000 apichatpong weerasethakul. Mysterious object at noon see more company credits. Mysterious object at noon singapore international film festival.
His two features, 2000s mysterious object at noon and 2002s blissfully. This film, alongside works by the likes of chen kaige, carlos reygadas and elia suleiman, will once again grace the big screen in rotterdam. A film crew documents a folk storyexquisite corpse combination by random thai people. It is a film made with little domestic influence, austere in its appearance. 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. Structured roughly as a chain story, the film is a loose assembly of interviewees chosen at. Mysterious object at noon 2000 apichatpong weerasethakul in mysterious object at noon 2000 mysterious. Nov 01, 2001 in mysterious object at noon, the director apichatpong weerasethakul has devised a distinct kind of entertainment. A distinct and unsurprisingly fine work by apichatpong weerasethakul, mysterious object at noon is an experimental film examining the porous boundaries between the real and imagined.
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