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THAILAND · 1999

Malee and the Boy

Apichatpong Weerasethakul
sound design childhood perspective urban exploration collaborative filmmaking sensory documentary
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Synopsis

The subject is a 10 year-old boy who is in charge of the microphone. He roams to places around Bangkok to gather sounds for the video. The sound indicates the direction he headed during the filming and displays his point of interests. The filmmaker is in charge of the image, film roughly along at the boy’s locations. The narrative of the film, presented in texts, is taken from a Thai comic book av

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