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Release Date: 2012

Categories: Movies, Avant-Garde, Black-And-White, Documentary, Experimental Film, Essay Film, Indie, Biography, World Cinema, Drama Film, Mystery

Mysterious Object at Noon (Thai: ดอกฟ้าในมือมาร, or Dokfa nai meuman, literally Dokfa in the Devil's Hand) is a 2000 Thai independent experimental documentary film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The film is unscripted and uses the exquisite corpse party game as a concept, with the film crew traveling across Thailand, interviewing people and asking each person to add their own words to a story. The film was shot in 16mm and enlarged to 35mm for international exhibition. Mysterious Object at Noon premiered in January 2000 at the International Film Festival... MORE

Mysterious Object at Noon (Thai: ดอกฟ้าในมือมาร, or Dokfa nai meuman, literally Dokfa in the Devil's Hand) is a 2000 Thai independent experimental documentary film directed by Apichatpong Weerasethakul. The film is unscripted and uses the exquisite corpse party game as a concept, with the film crew traveling across Thailand, interviewing people and asking each person to add their own words to a story. The film was shot in 16mm and enlarged to 35mm for international exhibition. Mysterious Object at Noon premiered in January 2000 at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, having received support from the Hubert Bals Fund in 1998. It had its North American premiere at the Vancouver International Film Festival, where it won a special citation Dragons and Tigers Award. It won the Grand Prize (Woosuk Award) at the Jeonju International Film Festival, second prize and the NETPAC Special Mention Prize at the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. The film was screened at many other film festivals, including the London Film Festival, the Singapore International Film Festival and the Hong Kong International Film Festival. Because its experimental nature falls outside the LESS