Diseases and a Hundred Year Period
Roke rai nai rob neung roi phee
Essay film about the censorship of Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Syndromes and a Century. The censored scenes, which he blacked out and scratched in Thailand, are paraphrased here. A political statement in an original form. The form that is in itself political, because it’s also the form and not only the substance of the sex that was censored.
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fall
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‘Action!’
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My Mother and Her Darkness
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I Am Fine
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Orchestra
And artists undertakes an attempt to make a documentary. He looks with admiration at workers in a silk factory but doesn’t forget to create art.
Film details
- Country of production
- Thailand
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 20'
- Medium/Format
- Mini DV NTSC