TEN THAI PHOTO-RESEMBLING FILMS

I’m sick right now. I have a deep throat, sorry, sore throat, so I decided to stay home from Monday to Friday and will go to work again next Monday. I can’t go to the Enki Bilal event this evening. I hope I will get well before the Italian Film Festival in Bangkok starts this coming weekend.

I cannot write anything long at the moment. So I think for the meantime I will write only some lists as usual.

I like the comment that Nawapol gave for the Thai short film GRANDMOTHER (KHUN YAI) (2007, Nawanont Wongkajit, A+) very much. He wrote that this film is like a still photo that can move. I think what I like very much about this film is this characteristic: it is a film which resembles a still photo.

So I decided to make a list of Thai films which have some parts resembling still photos, in roughly preferential order:

TEN THAI PHOTO-RESEMBLING FILMS
(All of them are short films, except BIRTH OF THE SEANEMA,)

1.BIRTH OF THE SEANEMA (2004, Sasithorn Ariyavicha, A+) 70 min

2.WINDOWS (1999, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, A+)

3.ROUGH NIGHT (2001, Samart Imkham, A+)

4.WINTER REMAINS (2004, Sasithorn Ariyavicha, A+) 19 min

5.THE AUDIENCE (2004, Tossapol Boonsinsukh, A+)

6.DRIFTER (1993, Sasithorn Ariyavicha, A+) 8 min

7.SPACE (2005, Sathit Sattarasart, A+)

8.GRANDMOTHER (KHUN YAI) (2007, Nawanont Wongkajit, A+)

9.A SONG AND GROUP OF STARS (BOT PLENG GUB MOO DAO) (2006, Surasithi Bunpala, A+)

10.CITY REPORT (2006, Chakrit Vichaiyuth, A+)

This list is actually not so different from the list of EXTREMELY SLOW THAI FILMS I made in January. The minor difference is that some extremely slow Thai films have their cameras moving from time to time, so these films are extremely slow, but are not like still photos.

The list of extremely slow Thai films can be found at:
http://celinejulie.blogspot.com/2007/01/when-will-i-see-you-again-tossapol.html

--I google the name Samart Imkham and found that there is someone with that name listed as a member of the band THE PASSION OF ANNA. I don’t know if he is the same Samart Imkham who directed ROUGH NIGHT or not. However, you can listen to the music of THE PASSION OF ANNA at:

http://www.myspace.com/passionofanna

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While some films resemble still photos, some still photos also resemble films, such as the photo series of Duane Michals

Some information about Duane Michals
http://www.photoinsider.com/pages/michals/michals.html

THE BOGEY MAN by Duane Michals
http://www.temple.edu/photo/photographers/michals/photosb.html

some photos and photo series by Duane Michals
http://www.pdngallery.com/legends3/michals/

THE DREAM OF FLOWERS by Duane Michals
http://digitaljournalist.org/issue0106/visions_michals.htm

WHO AM I by Duane Michals