Projection and discussion
Mysterious Object at Noon
18 Oct 2024
The event is over
Travelling through the Thai countryside, a film crew asks those whose path they cross to speak before the camera.
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mysterious Object at Noon, Thailand, 2000, 83 min, DCP, B&W, original version with French subtitles, restored version
Grand Prize at the 2001 Jeonju International Film Festival
Based on the principle of the Exquisite Corpse, they each in turn invent adventures for a strange tale. That of a disabled boy who one fine day discovers his teacher blacked out, with a mysterious ball on the floor. The ball suddenly metamorphoses into another little boy…
"Weerasethakul's cinema is rooted in memories of childhood, a period when life was nothing but empty time, when the world was not yet the saturated theatre of our affairs, but a toy box from which we could draw freely, to create daring combinations and invent sequences. [...] By superimposing documentary recording of oral improvisation and fictional
recreation, Weerasethakul creates a cinematic fantasy and a childhood dream: that of an immediate link between what you say and what you see, between spoken word and image.” Cyril Neyrat, Vertigo, January 2005.
Preceded by
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Malee and the Boy (26 min)
A ten-year-old boy records the sounds of Bangkok.
Restored in 2013 by the Austrian Film Museum and Cineteca di Bologna/L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in association with the Film Foundation's World Cinema Project, LISTO laboratory in Vienna, Technicolor Ltd in Bangkok, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Restoration funded by the Doha Film Institute
When
8pm - 10pm
Where
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mysterious Object at Noon, 2000
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