6 min

Helen Ganya Brown Who Can Recall Her Past Lives The Long Take

    • Film History

"I can recall the strange human-like wails I heard over the rice fields in the middle of the night, along with the implicit understanding that you needn’t bother question whether these sounds were real or a product of your own mind." Growing up in the Isan region of Thailand, came to realise that the real and the unreal intertwined in its mystical landscapes in a momentary sense of being. She explores the film, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, which portrays her sensation profoundly and beautifully.

"I can recall the strange human-like wails I heard over the rice fields in the middle of the night, along with the implicit understanding that you needn’t bother question whether these sounds were real or a product of your own mind." Growing up in the Isan region of Thailand, came to realise that the real and the unreal intertwined in its mystical landscapes in a momentary sense of being. She explores the film, Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives by Apichatpong Weerasethakul, which portrays her sensation profoundly and beautifully.

6 min