Mysterious Object at Noon

Filmed on grainy black and white 16mm, Apichatpong "Joe" Weerasethakul's 'Mysterious Object at Noon' is part documentary and part stream of consciousness experimental cut-up involving chance narratives and "exquisite corpse" methods used to string together a plot.

And it is this plot, rambling, yet enthusiastically told by various local Thai people who one would neither call amateur actors nor subjects of a documentary, that serves as a springboard into one's own subconscious and unconsciousness. An almost infinite number of departure points are served up in this manner, ranging from a tantalizing negative space between adjacent leaves on a tree to a hauntingly naïve performance on a bamboo reed mouth organ. There is a sense of a very personalized travelogue or a release on the Sublime Frequencies record label made visible.