Ashes, a new short film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, features the director’s dog, King Kong, and various farm animals. It will open the 16th Thai Short Film and Video Festival (เทศกาลภาพยนตร์สั้น ครั้งที่ 16) on 16th August.
The film has no dialogue, it has a voice-over describing “a dream within a dream”. There is also footage of a protest against Thailand’s lèse-majesté law, kaleidoscopic light patterns, jungle scenes, and a horizontal split-screen sequence. It ends with a pyrotechnical display at a funeral ceremony.
The film has no dialogue, it has a voice-over describing “a dream within a dream”. There is also footage of a protest against Thailand’s lèse-majesté law, kaleidoscopic light patterns, jungle scenes, and a horizontal split-screen sequence. It ends with a pyrotechnical display at a funeral ceremony.
Ashes was made for the Mubi website, and was filmed with a LomoKino, a hand-cranked camera that records short film clips on consumer 35mm film rolls. There is even a special Mubi edition of the LomoKino available to buy, branded with Apichatpong’s signature.
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