Cool new film stuff

For one of my classes at school we took a field trip to the jacob burns film center in pleasantville. It was really cool because we got to see a film by Apichatpong Weerasethakul (who I had never heard of, but he's a new director from Thailand who won the palm d'or at cannes). Anyway the movie we saw was called Tropical Malady and it was all really beautiful, shot in the jungles of thailand, very mood heavy and the storyline was very vague/poetic, but still intense. And then he did a Q&A after so it was cool because it was like I met him.

If you want to see some of his stuff he's on netflix, and his movie Uncle Boonmee is streaming.

And if you just wanna see something quick and cool he did, he recently made this short film on this new toy/camera the, lumokino. Its kind of like a bolex, but it shoots on 35mm photography film so you can get it developed at cvs or what have you. The camera is designed with light leaks so you get a lot of cool looking, super hip footage. You can actually buy one for like $70 on mubi's website. You can watch that film titled 'ashes' here too on mubi:  

Apichtpong Weerasethakul's Ashes