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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.

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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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