• Mysterious Object at Noon
  • Mysterious Object at Noon
  • Mysterious Object at Noon
  • Mysterious Object at Noon
  • Worldly Desires

Mysterious Object at Noon

(Dokfa nai meuman)

featuring

Duangjai Hiransri, Somsri Pinyopol, Kannikar Narong, Jaruwan Techasatiern,

The surrealist concept of the exquisite corpse game—where a story is improvised and continued from person to person—is reinvented along the roadside stops of rural Thailand in Weerasethakul’s astounding debut feature. A film crew heads from Bangkok to the hinterlands, asking people along the way to continue telling a tale of a wheelchair-bound boy; the story is shaped through speech or sign language, song and dance or radio broadcast, and grows more outlandish by the mile. “Less an anomaly than a secret skeleton key [to Weerasethakul’s work],” Dennis Lim wrote, “Mysterious Object at Noon revels in the myriad ways a story can be transmitted.”

Jason Sanders
FILM DETAILS 
Cinematographer
  • Apichatpong Weerasethakul
  • Prasong Klinborrom
  • Sayombhu Mukdeeprom
Language
  • Thai
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • B&W
  • DCP
  • 89 mins
Source
  • Janus Films
Additional Info
  • Story edited by Weerasethakul, Mingmongkol Sonakul.
Followed By

Worldly Desires

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Thailand, South Korea, 2005

Dedicated to the memories of filmmaking in the jungle during the years 2001–05. A film within a film, a love story shot by day and a song at night.

FILM DETAILS 
Language
  • Thai
  • with English subtitles
Print Info
  • Color
  • DCP
  • 43 mins
source
  • Kick the Machine Films