Winner of the 2010 Cannes Palme d’Or, Thai artist and filmmaker Apichatpong Weerasethakul is recognised as one of contemporary cinema’s most unique voices.
Mysterious Object at Noon is his hallucinatory debut feature, an extraordinary mix of experimental documentary and fiction that wends its way through the landscapes and mindscapes of rural Thailand. The film is structured as a surrealist game; a small film-crew travel the Thai countryside asking people they encounter along the way to invent the next chapter of a story. The daisy-chain structure of interlocking vignettes - alternately fantastical, comic and workaday - bridge documentary realism and the avant-garde, resulting in a boldly original debut that looks and feels like nothing else.
Available on both Blu-Ray and DVD formats - Mysterious Object at Noon is presented from a new 2K restoration of the film by the Austrian Film Museum and Martin Scorsese's World Cinema Foundation and also includes Apichatpong Weerasethakul's short film Nimit, plus an exclusive new filmed interview with the director, and a booklet featuring a new essay on the film by Tony Rayns.
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- New and exclusive filmed interview with director Apichatpong Weerasethakul
- Apichatpong’s 2007 short film Nimit (Meteorites)
- A featurette on the restoration of the film
- 16-page booklet featuring a new essay on the film by filmmaker and critic Tony Rayns