Ashes
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In collaboration with Lomo, an Austrian camera company, and Mubi, a global film website, Weerasethakul was invited to make a work to launch the new LomoKino, a portable motion picture camera. Ashes juxtaposes the intimacy of his daily routine with the destruction of memories and his observations of the dark side of Thailand’s social realities.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2012-05-19
Runtime: 20 mins
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Writer: Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Spoken language: ภาษาไทย
Genres: Documentary
Original title: Ashes
Production Companies: Kick the Machine
Production Countries: Thailand
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