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The protestors’ gathering at BACC, like at the other venues, was a peaceful gathering, which was why the BAB artists, in their letter, expressed their reservation about the use of force by the police. “We condemn and call for the immediate stop to the use of violence against the protesters and express our support for their struggle for democracy. We further urge the Biennale and the BACC to join us in taking a stand against such violence and affirming the right to peaceful protest,” they said.
“As a foundation, we take a neutral stand,” responded Prof Apinan Poshyanada, but he admitted that the theme of the Biennale, Escape Routes, could be connected to the aim of the protestors. The letter by the Biennale artists, too, mentioned this. “The theme of this year’s Biennale is Escape Routes, which explores how art can help us understand and search for ways out of the many predicaments that we are living through in the world today. We belie
Mysterious Object at Noon (1999)
Weerasethakul’s feature-making debut is a dreamlike 16mm documentary that journeys from Bangkok’s city roads to the rich Thai countryside. The seeds for his experimental narrative style are planted immediately: a series of vignettes chart the illogical tale of a crippled boy and his teacher, as told by a succession of rural villagers who continue the unwritten tale as they see fit.
Seamlessly merging black and white documentary footage with staged fiction,
Mysterious Object at Noon instantaneously turns odd, as it becomes evident that the film’s storytellers have no knowledge of the events that had preceded their own chapter.