THAILAND · 2020

Decameron

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Thai Slow Cinema isolation during lockdown insects and nature domestic rituals light and darkness survival and sustenance
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Decameron was shot in lockdown during the Thai monsoon season, in 2020. In a dark room, a woman removes insects from a mosquito net in order to cook them. The moving light she holds briefly reveals her face, the transparent panel of the mosquito net and the insects left outside of it.

Year2020
CountryThailand
DirectorApichatpong Weerasethakul
Decameron poster

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