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Mysterious Object at Noon (Thai: ดอกฟ้าในมือมาร, or Dokfa nai meuman, literally Dokfa in the Devil's Hand) is a 2000 Thai experimental documentary film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul in his feature directorial debut.
mysterious object at noon (2000) by. Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Publication date. 2000. Topics. film, cinema, movie. Language. Thai.
Jan 27, 2016 · A film crew documents a folk story-exquisite corpse combination by random Thai people; the story is reenacted. The film explores the idea of stories within stories, reality and illusion, and the Buddhist concept of abhidharma.
A surrealist experiment in collective storytelling, Mysterious Object at Noon explores the boundaries between reality and fantasy in Thailand. The film was restored in 2013 by the Criterion Collection and the Austrian Film Museum.
A camera crew travels through Thailand asking villagers to invent the next chapter of an ever-growing story. A TV-obsessed boxer, a group of schoolkids, a lonely rubber-tree tapper and feuding food vendors all add to a tale that includes witches, tigers, surprise doublings, and impossible reversals.
May 30, 2017 · Apichatpong Weerasethakul's debut feature is a hybrid of fiction and documentary, inspired by the exquisite corpse game and Thai folklore. The film follows a mysterious object that haunts the stories of various characters, from a fishmonger to a paraplegic boy, in a journey across Thailand.
Martin Scorsese’s World Cinema Project Apichatpong Weerasethakul brought an appetite for experimentation to Thai cinema with his debut feature, an uncategorizable work that refracts documentary impressions of his homeland through the surrealist concept of the exquisite corpse game.
