Mysterious Object at Noon

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Mysterious Object at Noon, Thailand, 2000, 83 min, DCP, B&W, original version with French subtitles, restored version 
Grand Prize at the 2001 Jeonju International Film Festival 

Based on the principle of the Exquisite Corpse, they each in turn invent adventures for a strange tale. That of a disabled boy who one fine day discovers his teacher blacked out, with a mysterious ball on the floor. The ball suddenly metamorphoses into another little boy… 

"Weerasethakul's cinema is rooted in memories of childhood, a period when life was nothing but empty time, when the world was not yet the saturated theatre of our affairs, but a toy box from which we could draw freely, to create daring combinations and invent sequences. [...] By superimposing documentary recording of oral improvisation and fictional recreation, Weerasethakul creates a cinematic fantasy and a childhood dream: that of an immediate link between what you say and what you see, between spoken word and image.” Cyril Neyrat, Vertigo, January 2005. 

Preceded by 

Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Malee and the Boy (26 min)  
A ten-year-old boy records the sounds of Bangkok.