{"id":8870,"date":"2013-11-09T21:00:08","date_gmt":"2013-11-10T02:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/?p=8870"},"modified":"2013-11-09T14:19:21","modified_gmt":"2013-11-09T19:19:21","slug":"apichatpong-weerasethakul-shorts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/archives\/8870","title":{"rendered":"Apichatpong Weerasethakul shorts"},"content":{"rendered":"

After some new ones appeared online, I watched a handful of A.W.’s available shorts. These seem more experimental than the features, and generally not as fun to watch, but still interesting.<\/p>\n

M Hotel<\/em> (2011)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two guys on a hotel windowsill.
\nDialogue is low, muffled and underwater.
\nI wanted this to connect to Mekong Hotel<\/a><\/em> because of the title, but I guess not.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Ashes<\/em> (2012)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Low frame rate, some repeated shots with different audio.
\nGunshots in both movies so far.
\nA man talks about dreams and colors.
\nHypnotic – I liked it.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Vampire<\/em> (2008)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Had to watch twice, put me to sleep the first time.
\nMen are searching for a rare noctural bird for louis vuitton. They rip strips of cloth, douse in blood and strew carefully around on trees while making awful sounds. A man is painted in blood and set out to sit quietly in the cold. In the end nothing happens, or something does, it’s hard to tell.<\/p>\n

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Haiku<\/em> (2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Sound of outdoors: crickets, owl? Handheld walk into red-filtered tent, men sleeping. Unfiltered shot or someone outside in distance under spotlight. Back to red, two guys awake now, smiling. Credits, quick shot of boom operator. Part of a series of Haiku shorts, with others by Naomi Kawase, Alain Cavalier and Frederick Wiseman.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Luminous People<\/em> (2007)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Bunch of people on a long boat ride. Possibly a ritual thing, since there’s a monk, and ashes are tossed into the water. River roar on the soundtrack and a man sings a dream song. From the State of the World anthology – I didn’t watch the rest of it.<\/p>\n

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Phantoms of Nabua<\/em> (2009)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Lightning strikes the ground, causing puffs of smoke with muted sound.
\nThis is projected on a screen, before which guys kick a flaming football.
\nFootball gets too close, screen burns down.
\nThis made me very sleepy.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Empire<\/em> (2010)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Very neat ad\/intro for the 2010 Viennale, featuring cave photography, a scuba diver and a strobe light (not in that order).<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The Anthem<\/em> (2006)<\/strong><\/p>\n

First half is a static shot of three woman on a canal-side patio. Second half is a busy circular dolly shot around a gymnasium showing a workout routine, lighting crew and central badminton exhibition. Weird.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Third World<\/em> (1997)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Grainy b\/w photography, mostly of buildings, as a man narrates his dreams to a friend on the soundtrack. Then a bunch of nothing much, as a woman berates a kid who couldn’t manage to buy some eggs and bring them home without smashing them all. Then all is dark, and nothing much becomes even less. Dullsville.<\/p>\n

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Other A.W. shorts: I watched A Letter to Uncle Boonmee<\/a><\/em> a while ago. He’s got a new one as part of the Venice 70<\/em> project. World Desires<\/em> is from the 2005 Jeonju project. I just found a copy of Cactus River<\/em> but haven’t watched yet. Mobile Men<\/em> is from the 2008 Stories on Human Rights<\/em> anthology. And there are lots more on IMDB that I’ve never seen anywhere, like Boys at Noon<\/em>, Masumi is a PC Operator<\/em>, the recent Sakda<\/em>, and Ghost of Asia<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

After some new ones appeared online, I watched a handful of A.W.’s available shorts. These seem more experimental than the features, and generally not as fun to watch, but still interesting. M Hotel (2011) Two guys on a hotel windowsill. Dialogue is low, muffled and underwater. I wanted this to connect to Mekong Hotel because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1041,21],"class_list":["post-8870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie","tag-apichatpong-weerasethakul","tag-shorts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8870"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8871,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8870\/revisions\/8871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/deeperintomovies.net\/journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}