SAT APRIL 16, 2022 7:00 PM MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON / MEKONG HOTEL $8.00 (member) ; $13.00 (general admission) Los Feliz 3 | Apichatpong Weerasethakul Retrospective Tickets are no longer on sale for this event.
ABOUT THE FILMS: MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON, 2000, Janus Films, 89 min. Thailand, Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul. 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. Enlisting locals to contribute improvised narration to a simple tale, Apichatpong charts the collective construction of the fiction as each new encounter imbues it with unpredictable shades of fantasy and pathos. Shot over the course of two years in 16 mm black and white, MYSTERIOUS OBJECT AT NOON established the director’s fascination with the porous boundaries between the real and the imagined. FORMAT: DCP MEKONG HOTEL, 2012, Strand Releasing, 61 min. Thailand, Dir. Apichatpong Weerasethakul. Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s MEKONG HOTEL is a portrait of a hotel near the Mekong River in the north-east of Thailand. In the bedrooms and terraces, holds a rehearsal with his crew for a movie that he wrote years ago, as the film shuffles different realms, fact and fiction, expressing the bonds between a vampire-like mother and her daughter, the young lovers and the river. The film, shot at the time of the heavy flooding in Thailand, weaves in layers of demolition, politics, and a drifting dream of the future. FORMAT: DCP