Thailand

  • Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit – Mary Is Happy, Mary Is Happy (2013)

    2011-2020ArthouseExperimentalNawapol ThamrongrattanaritThailand

    29f7c043f76a2bde437fd0d52a185152

    from Pan Asian Film Festival 2014
    (page link)
    Portraying a character struggling to make sense of her life as it threatens to spin out of control, Nawapol’s brilliant second film creates an inventive narrative of an uncontrollable life through a brilliantly modern artistic concept: to adapt a Twitter stream into a fictional film.

    The director used 410 real Tweets from an anonymous girl as a springboard to create a fantasy world of a contemporary Asian teenager, and the results are funny and strange, a conflation of modern Thai teenage life, Wes Anderson-esque humour, and the possibilities for escape offered by the digital world.Read More »

  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul – 2015 Rolling (2015)

    2011-2020Apichatpong WeerasethakulExperimentalShort FilmThailand

    Apichatpong Weerasethakul new shortfilm distributed in Youtube. No synopsis or more information available.Read More »

  • Wichanon Somunjarn – Sin maysar fon tok ma proi proi AKA In April the Following Year, There Was a Fire (2012)

    2011-2020DramaExperimentalThailandWichanon Somunjarn

    29f7c043f76a2bde437fd0d52a185152

    Nhum is a construction foreman working in Bangkok. The political instability in Thailand has made its presence felt in all business sectors. Nhum suddenly finds himself out of jobs. He decides to head back to the northeast to attend a wedding during the Thai New Year in April — the hottest month of the year.
    At the wedding in Khon Kaen, Nhum runs into Joy, a senior from his high school whom he used to have a crush on. They exchange their phone numbers.
    Suddenly, we see an interview with the director’s family members, and we learn that the film itself is a semi-autobiography of the director’s life. The character of Nhum is as much a construct as it is real. From this point on, the film becomes the voyage of a young man into the labyrinths of the real and the imagined, the documentary and the fiction, the past and the present – and not only of his self but also of the Thai society writ large.
    Read More »

  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Sang sattawat aka Syndromes and a Century (2006)

    2001-2010Apichatpong WeerasethakulArthouseDramaThailand

    Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us

    29f7c043f76a2bde437fd0d52a185152

    A film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul

    Syndromes and a Century, the fifth feature from Thai director Apichatpong Weerasethakul, is a spellbinding Buddhist meditation on the mysteries of love and attraction, the workings of memory, and the ways in which happiness is triggered. Mesmerisingly beautiful to look at, it is also laced with wonderful absurd humour.

    Commissioned by Vienna’s New Crowned Hope festival in 2006, the film established Weerasethakul as one of the most exciting talents in world cinema today.

    Dubbed ‘a hospital comedy of a somewhat metaphysical bent’, Syndromes and a Century is inspired by the Weerasethakul’s memories of his parents, both doctors, and of growing up in a hospital environment. The two central characters interact with a bizarre array of professional colleagues and patients with their various strange maladies, including an elderly haematologist who hides her whisky supplies in a prosthetic limb, a Buddhist monk suffering from bad dreams about chickens, and a young monk who once dreamed of being a DJ and now forms an intense bond with a singing dentist, whom he believes to be the reincarnation of his dead brother.Read More »

  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Mekong Hotel (2012)

    2011-2020Apichatpong WeerasethakulArthouseHorrorThailand

    29f7c043f76a2bde437fd0d52a185152

    “Shifting between fact and fiction in a hotel situated along the Mekong River, a filmmaker rehearses a movie expressing the bonds between a vampire-like mother and daughter… “….IMDBRead More »

  • Bin Bunluerit – Krasue aka Demonic Beauty (2002)

    2001-2010Bin BunlueritFantasyHorrorThailand

    Free Image Hosting at www.ImageShack.us

    29f7c043f76a2bde437fd0d52a185152

    PLOT – short version

    A Thai tale of the legendary Krasue (also known as the ‘P’ Graseau, or the Penanggalan in Chinese), a Southeast Asian Ghost, composed of a disembodied witch with a flying head and entrails dangling beneath. Political intrigue, black magic, unrequited love and disembowlment all fit together perfectly for an evening of family fun with the witch with the flying head. Written by J.W. CaseRead More »

  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Sud sanaeha aka blissfully yours (2002)

    2001-2010Apichatpong WeerasethakulDramaRomanceThailand

    29f7c043f76a2bde437fd0d52a185152

    From Time Out Film Guide

    Apichatpong’s ’emotional disaster movie’ opens wittily with the longest pre-credits scene ever: a leisurely introduction to the three main characters and the binds that tie them. Min (Oo) is a Burmese illegal immigrant, a strapping lad with a nagging skin problem, in need of a fake ID. His Thai girlfriend Roong (Kanokporn), a factory worker, has hired Orn and her husband to help get it. Orn wants to have another child before she’s too old, but her husband isn’t keen. The credits show up some 45 minutes in, as Min guides Roong to a secluded spot near the Thai-Burmese border where they’ll eat, laze, bathe and eventually make love. By chance Orn has chosen a spot nearby for illicit sex with her lover…Read More »

  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul – Worldly Desires (2005)

    2001-2010Apichatpong WeerasethakulExperimentalThailand

    29f7c043f76a2bde437fd0d52a185152

    From link
    This digital featurette, not quite a companion piece to Tropical Malady but certainly related to it, shows Joe operating at the height of his formalist powers. One of the things I’ve valued about Weerasethakul’s work since Mysterious Object at Noon is his commitment to exploring the traditions of avant-garde cinema while taking those idioms into uncharted territory. While some works by Joe have displayed an interest in bending the strategies of Andy Warhol and Bruce Baillie to the needs of Thai folklore and narrative gamesmanship, Worldly Desires takes a more structural approach. However this piece bears little resemblance to structural film as we usually think of it; if there are specific touchstones for Worldly Desires in film history, they would be those “other” structuralists, so wonky and off the beaten track as to thwart easy categorization. Like Morgan Fisher’s early film projects, Worldly Desires is a documentation of the filmmaking process. Within a single expansive jungle location, portions of a Thai soap opera are being filmed by day, and a music video is being made by night.Read More »

  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul – A Letter to Uncle Boonmee (2009)

    2001-2010Apichatpong WeerasethakulShort FilmThailand

    29f7c043f76a2bde437fd0d52a185152

    A slowly moving camera captures the interiors of various houses in a village. They are all deserted except one house with a group of young soldiers. They are digging the up the ground. It is unclear whether they are exhuming or burying something. The voices of three young men are heard. They repeat, rehearse, memorise a letter to a man named Boonmee. They tell him about a small community called Nabua where the inhabitants have abandoned their homes. The wind blows fiercely through the doors, and the windows, bringing with it a swarm of bugs. As evening approaches, the sky turns dark. The bugs scatter and the men are silent.Read More »

Back to top button