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Phantoms of Nabua

Synopsis

A fluorescent tube illuminates an empty playground in the evening. Nearby a flash of light is projected on a makeshift screen. This outdoor movie is a portrait of a village repeatedly struck by lightning. As night falls, the silhouette figures of young men emerge, they are playing with a football raging with fire. They take turns kicking the ball which leaves illuminated trails in the grass. The lightning on the screen flickers amid the fire and the smoke rising from the ground. The game intensifies with each kick that sends the fireball soaring into the air. Finally the teens burn the screen and crowd around it to witness the blazing canvas, behind which is revealed the ghostly white beam of a projector.
 
Phantoms of Nabua is part of the multi-platform PRIMITIVE project which focuses on a concept of remembrance and extinction and is set in the northeast of Thailand.

Details

Year
2010
Type of film
Shorts
Running time
11 mins
Director
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Producer
Simon Field, Keith Griffiths
Screenwriter
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Director of Photography
Sayombhu Mukdeeprom

Categories

Fiction Animation

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Illuminations Films

simon@illuminationsfilms.co.uk

Sales Company

Animate Projects

T +44 (0)20 7407 3946

distribution@animateprojects.org

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