A Letter to Uncle Boonmee
Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2009, UK, TH, video, 18'
A slowly moving camera captures the interiors of various houses in a village. They are all deserted except one house, where a group of young soldiers digs up the ground. It is unclear whether they are exhuming or burying something... Filming in Nabua in northeastern Thailand, site of a 1965 battle between communist farmers and the totalitarian government, Apichatpong employs an incantatory omniscient narration to evoke repression and hope.
