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Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s experiment in collective storytelling was inspired by the Surrealist game ‘Exquisite Corpse’, in which players draw a part of a picture (usually a figure), or write a line of a story, without awareness of the whole. Shooting ‘on the road’, the director and his small crew asked people they met throughout the country to contribute the next lines of a story about a handicapped boy and his tutor, a woman named Dogfar. The interviewees — muay thai kickboxers, grandmothers, video game-saturated school children — all participate enthusiastically, employing uniquely Thai modes of storytelling.

Restored in 2013 by The Film Foundation’s World Cinema Project and the Austrian Film Museum. Restoration works carried out at the Austrian Film Museum, LISTO laboratory in Vienna, Technicolor Ltd in Bangkok, and Cineteca di Bologna/L'Immagine Ritrovata laboratory, in close collaboration with Apichatpong Weerasethakul.

Ages 15+ | Adult themes