STORIES FROM THE NORTH is a collection of short documentaries made by director Uruphong Raksasad over a number of years. Now re-edited into an expansive feature, the footage forms a cinematic collage of life in the northern Thai village where he grew up. The film captures the details of everyday situations from the most fundamental and commonplace – from the village to city life – to more intriguing moments such as the bicycle club formed by the village elders. Uruphong’s root in the village allows him to achieve a rare intimacy with his neighbours – while some footage are contemplative and observational, at other times his camera gets both literally and emotionally as close to his subjects as it could be.
Here a collection of short documentaries:
THE WAY An uncle and a grandson find out ‘the way’.
MARCH OF TIME
Starting out as a quiet observation of an old farmer’s life in northern Thailand, the film sublimates to a dream of imagination. An old man lives alone with his dog in a shack by his fields, tending his vegetables and water buffalo, eating simply and surrounded by the sounds of wind, rain, and chirping birds. One night, there’s an intruder....
THE LONGEST DAY
Two elderly woman on a summer's day in rural Thailand. A day, as long as a life: seeing a fire of funeral, sitting in the flickering sunlight, watching the cat, eating, lying in a hammock, waiting. "I want to die", says one of the woman to her child on the telephone, who again won't come for a visit from the city. The longest day doesn't seem to end, while a pompous funeral cortege disappears silently at the horizon, just like a projection.
THE HARVEST
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