Apichatpong Weerasethakul brought an appetite for experimentation to Thai cinema with his debut feature, an uncategorizable work that refracts documentary impressions of his homeland through the surrealist concept of the exquisite corpse game. Shot over the course of two years in 16 mm black and white, Mysterious Object at Noon established the director's fascination with the porous boundaries between the real and the imagined.
