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THAILAND · 2007

Luminous People

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Thai Slow Cinema death and commemoration memory and decay filmmaking as ritual presence of absence ghost imagery
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Synopsis

A recreation of an event to commemorate the presence of the dead and the decayed memories of the living, of filmmaking

Year2007
CountryThailand
DirectorApichatpong Weerasethakul
MovementThai Slow Cinema
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