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<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n\nWhat is a stoner movie?This was the Golden Ganja question as we watched the exotic entries one after another. It\u2019s not just the dude stuff or the trippy images with disassociated dialogue. It dawned on us that what makes a film a stoner movie is its sense of reality, a certain observational distance\u2014Zen detachment. They don\u2019t all show ganja on screen or even touch on weed culture, but they all have in common the state of being stoned.The point being: If contemporary consensus reality with its abusive half-truths is clearly losing its mind, artists, filmmakers and cinephiles have the right\u2014even the dharma\u2014to subvert and shatter that cherished mirage.All we weed is love.Dr Alice Skinhead
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<\/span>Indoor (in the cinema) :<\/div>\n<\/span>Outdoor (Screenings in Atrium Post-Sunset) :<\/div>\nSchedule<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n 8 Features<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n ____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n
Cannabis Medicinal<\/strong>
\nArgentina
\n61 mins
\nSara Silvia Kochen, Emiliano Serra<\/p>\nThe beautiful pioneers of cannabis research in this solidly enlightening documentary inspire and console us, and it\u2019s not just the autism and epilepsy mums who\u2019ve done so much to end prohibition. At its heart is a university research chemist whose brief \u2018The Scientific Basis of Cannabis\u2019 is covered by special governmental permits. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the chemical difference in our brain between when we\u2019re happy and unhappy,\u201d he says, explaining the compound he\u2019s named Anandamide from Sanskrit Anandamida, \u201cThe mechanism of cannabis is a great mystery.\u201d Other memorable lines: \u201cIt\u2019s not a gateway drug but a gateway to exit addiction. That\u2019s part of the demonising\u201d (a hospital doctor); \u201cIt was the first time he found something funny\u201d (mum whose autistic son laughed for the first time in his life); \u201cYou can\u2019t be healed if you aren\u2019t stoned!\u201d (old hippie grower fed up with criticism of side effects of cannabis).
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It\u2019s A Wrap<\/strong>
\nIsrael
\n56 mins
\nAmit Miller, Miri Urman<\/p>\nHaya invites family and friends to a farewell party. Farewell to what? \u201cTo life,\u201d she says cheerfully. She has terminal cancer and wants to die on her own terms, with dignity. It\u2019s getting hard to swallow so she\u2019s stopped taking food and medicine, though she does smoke enormous joints (\u201cCannabis\u2026Good\u201d) and still paints her lips red. Her determined stoicism is both wise and natural, and reasonable. \u201cI\u2019m afraid of pain and nothing else,\u201d she says firmly. She would die as cheerfully and logically as she has lived, as we soon learn from her secrets. There is no fear of death to poison love, and it is miraculous to watch this indescribably lovely grandmother musician take leave of this world by making peace with all in it. An extraordinary documentary and the opposite of depressing.
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Blood Rain<\/strong>
\nThailand
\n73 mins
\nAchitaphon Piansukprasert<\/p>\nIf true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in \u2018Blood Rain\u2019, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose \u2018Gagee: The Lady\u2019s Tale\u2019. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you.
\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n
Pain of Silence<\/strong>
\nThailand,
\n77 mins,
\nChristopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong<\/p>\nThree years gone by, no gig. The pandemic lockdown has plunged traditional performance arts into a coma, with many accomplished Isan musicians forced to take up construction jobs. The star is Boonma, a blind Isan phin master who taught himself from hearing others play. He has to be carefully led to a red plastic chair on a makeshift stage, but then plays like an angel from heaven. We see him perform seated on a junk cart pushed by his not young wife; the COVID mask has scrounged up his face, giving him a sour and bewildered look as he fists up the coins at an intersection. We see a mermaid puppet swim in air among ancient ruins. But all interviewees are wonderful, the real thing, in this beautifully-shot labour of true love that dives headfirst into the meaning and purpose of art. Where is the Ministry of Culture in all this? In a priceless scene an official at the Cultural Promotion Dept details his massive workload: cultural promotion of course, royal ceremonies as well, and \u201ccontemporary art is important too\u2014we can\u2019t just stay the same.\u201d
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Take Your Space<\/strong>
\nCzech
\n76 mins
\nKarol\u00edna Alvarez<\/p>\nThere\u2019s not one bad frame in this beautifully filmed and edited art documentary, a headlong dive into Mexican graffiti and street art. Initially a Californian import, it has grown hybrid Olmec roots, in a country so welcoming to wall painters who fit neatly into its Mexican School of Muralism. The soundtrack is anti-colonial rap: \u201cRemember, Gringo, you stole our land! You call me illegal but you took everything!\u201d Where \u201cclouds of money bring showers of bullets\u201d, rapping, skateboarding, graffiti and street art are not just cool but an authentic act of defiance. How much richer the world is that these people have chosen to paint walls instead of blowing them up.
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Winter In Pluto<\/strong>
\nUS
\n56 mins
\nRiley Teahan<\/p>\nWe dive into the navel of the iconic torso of the Venus de Milo, and find Disco Persephone\/Aphrodite alone in her throbbing pink 1970\u2019s prison cell\/boudoir, gazing out of her round window and sometimes her pink TV, at lovers on earth. This is a contemporary dance movie, Bollywood on shroom with bodies of every shape and colour. The dancing is awesome and inspired. The last sequence has flashing lights, not good for epileptics, who scientists say should smoke more weed.
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Ujan Story<\/strong>
\nArmenia
\n70 mins
\nShahram Badakhshan Mehr<\/p>\nIt starts with a quote from Job (\u201cI\u2019ve heard of Thee by ear. Now I\u2019ve seen Thee.\u201d) so you know it\u2019s about the trials of life in Armenian Kalava, but the dreamy realism is delicious. Yes, life is tough but also joyous. So what? If that\u2019s not stoned, what is? The movie\u2019s textures are pleasurable. A grape-festooned courtyard; fruit ripening on trees as old people tend to them; bare feet squishing grapes to make wine; a highway through empty brown fields where the very earth seems charred by war; a child in pink with dark intense eyes. Families are separated by migration to safety and security in Fortress Europe and life is kind of sad but, always, beautiful, and the neon crucifix atop the hill that has gone out is restored to light. A rare film that takes you almost physically there on a magic carpet.
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American Pot Story: Oaksterdam<\/strong>
\nUS
\n96 mins
\nRavit Markus, Dan Katzir<\/p>\nA serious film about seriously brave and lovely people, this important documentary on the history of the legalisation campaign in the US is the untold story of the \u2018Mayor of Oaksterdam\u2019 Richard Lee, a ganja activist in a wheelchair (\u201cBusiness is my activism\u201d; \u201cBreak the law to change the law\u201d; \u201cControl and tax pot\u201d), as told by his sidekick and successor Dale Sky Jones. The dark climax is reached when no cops are available to stop a mass shooting at a Christian university nearby because they are all busy staging an overkill FBI raid on Richard\u2019s Oaksterdam University pot business school. Dale: \u201cThis is about decriminalisation as much as legalisation. People are arrested, their lives destroyed.\u201d The raid and the expensive lobbying campaign to end prohibition ruin them, but by putting the ganja debate into mainstream politics, \u201cWe can honestly say we\u2019ve left the world better than we found it.\u201d Indeed you have, and thank you.
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[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n
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At its heart is a university research chemist whose brief \u2018The Scientific Basis of Cannabis\u2019 is covered by special governmental permits. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the chemical difference in our brain between when we\u2019re happy and unhappy,\u201d he says, explaining the compound he\u2019s named Anandamide from Sanskrit Anandamida, \u201cThe mechanism of cannabis is a great mystery.\u201d Other memorable lines: \u201cIt\u2019s not a gateway drug but a gateway to exit addiction. That\u2019s part of the demonising\u201d (a hospital doctor); \u201cIt was the first time he found something funny\u201d (mum whose autistic son laughed for the first time in his life); \u201cYou can\u2019t be healed if you aren\u2019t stoned!\u201d (old hippie grower fed up with criticism of side effects of cannabis).\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nIt\u2019s A Wrap<\/strong>\nIsrael\n56 mins\nAmit Miller, Miri Urman<\/p>\nHaya invites family and friends to a farewell party. Farewell to what? \u201cTo life,\u201d she says cheerfully. She has terminal cancer and wants to die on her own terms, with dignity. It\u2019s getting hard to swallow so she\u2019s stopped taking food and medicine, though she does smoke enormous joints (\u201cCannabis\u2026Good\u201d) and still paints her lips red. Her determined stoicism is both wise and natural, and reasonable. \u201cI\u2019m afraid of pain and nothing else,\u201d she says firmly. She would die as cheerfully and logically as she has lived, as we soon learn from her secrets. There is no fear of death to poison love, and it is miraculous to watch this indescribably lovely grandmother musician take leave of this world by making peace with all in it. An extraordinary documentary and the opposite of depressing.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nBlood Rain<\/strong>\nThailand\n73 mins\nAchitaphon Piansukprasert<\/p>\nIf true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in \u2018Blood Rain\u2019, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose \u2018Gagee: The Lady\u2019s Tale\u2019. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nPain of Silence<\/strong>\nThailand,\n77 mins,\nChristopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong<\/p>\nThree years gone by, no gig. The pandemic lockdown has plunged traditional performance arts into a coma, with many accomplished Isan musicians forced to take up construction jobs. The star is Boonma, a blind Isan phin master who taught himself from hearing others play. He has to be carefully led to a red plastic chair on a makeshift stage, but then plays like an angel from heaven. We see him perform seated on a junk cart pushed by his not young wife; the COVID mask has scrounged up his face, giving him a sour and bewildered look as he fists up the coins at an intersection. We see a mermaid puppet swim in air among ancient ruins. But all interviewees are wonderful, the real thing, in this beautifully-shot labour of true love that dives headfirst into the meaning and purpose of art. Where is the Ministry of Culture in all this? In a priceless scene an official at the Cultural Promotion Dept details his massive workload: cultural promotion of course, royal ceremonies as well, and \u201ccontemporary art is important too\u2014we can\u2019t just stay the same.\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nTake Your Space<\/strong>\nCzech\n76 mins\nKarol\u00edna Alvarez<\/p>\nThere\u2019s not one bad frame in this beautifully filmed and edited art documentary, a headlong dive into Mexican graffiti and street art. Initially a Californian import, it has grown hybrid Olmec roots, in a country so welcoming to wall painters who fit neatly into its Mexican School of Muralism. The soundtrack is anti-colonial rap: \u201cRemember, Gringo, you stole our land! You call me illegal but you took everything!\u201d Where \u201cclouds of money bring showers of bullets\u201d, rapping, skateboarding, graffiti and street art are not just cool but an authentic act of defiance. How much richer the world is that these people have chosen to paint walls instead of blowing them up.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nWinter In Pluto<\/strong>\nUS\n56 mins\nRiley Teahan<\/p>\nWe dive into the navel of the iconic torso of the Venus de Milo, and find Disco Persephone\/Aphrodite alone in her throbbing pink 1970\u2019s prison cell\/boudoir, gazing out of her round window and sometimes her pink TV, at lovers on earth. This is a contemporary dance movie, Bollywood on shroom with bodies of every shape and colour. The dancing is awesome and inspired. The last sequence has flashing lights, not good for epileptics, who scientists say should smoke more weed.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nUjan Story<\/strong>\nArmenia\n70 mins\nShahram Badakhshan Mehr<\/p>\nIt starts with a quote from Job (\u201cI\u2019ve heard of Thee by ear. Now I\u2019ve seen Thee.\u201d) so you know it\u2019s about the trials of life in Armenian Kalava, but the dreamy realism is delicious. Yes, life is tough but also joyous. So what? If that\u2019s not stoned, what is? The movie\u2019s textures are pleasurable. A grape-festooned courtyard; fruit ripening on trees as old people tend to them; bare feet squishing grapes to make wine; a highway through empty brown fields where the very earth seems charred by war; a child in pink with dark intense eyes. Families are separated by migration to safety and security in Fortress Europe and life is kind of sad but, always, beautiful, and the neon crucifix atop the hill that has gone out is restored to light. A rare film that takes you almost physically there on a magic carpet.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nAmerican Pot Story: Oaksterdam<\/strong>\nUS\n96 mins\nRavit Markus, Dan Katzir<\/p>\nA serious film about seriously brave and lovely people, this important documentary on the history of the legalisation campaign in the US is the untold story of the \u2018Mayor of Oaksterdam\u2019 Richard Lee, a ganja activist in a wheelchair (\u201cBusiness is my activism\u201d; \u201cBreak the law to change the law\u201d; \u201cControl and tax pot\u201d), as told by his sidekick and successor Dale Sky Jones. The dark climax is reached when no cops are available to stop a mass shooting at a Christian university nearby because they are all busy staging an overkill FBI raid on Richard\u2019s Oaksterdam University pot business school. Dale: \u201cThis is about decriminalisation as much as legalisation. People are arrested, their lives destroyed.\u201d The raid and the expensive lobbying campaign to end prohibition ruin them, but by putting the ganja debate into mainstream politics, \u201cWe can honestly say we\u2019ve left the world better than we found it.\u201d Indeed you have, and thank you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n3 Short programs<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. 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![\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n8 Features<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nCannabis Medicinal<\/strong>\nArgentina\n61 mins\nSara Silvia Kochen, Emiliano Serra<\/p>\nThe beautiful pioneers of cannabis research in this solidly enlightening documentary inspire and console us, and it\u2019s not just the autism and epilepsy mums who\u2019ve done so much to end prohibition. At its heart is a university research chemist whose brief \u2018The Scientific Basis of Cannabis\u2019 is covered by special governmental permits. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the chemical difference in our brain between when we\u2019re happy and unhappy,\u201d he says, explaining the compound he\u2019s named Anandamide from Sanskrit Anandamida, \u201cThe mechanism of cannabis is a great mystery.\u201d Other memorable lines: \u201cIt\u2019s not a gateway drug but a gateway to exit addiction. That\u2019s part of the demonising\u201d (a hospital doctor); \u201cIt was the first time he found something funny\u201d (mum whose autistic son laughed for the first time in his life); \u201cYou can\u2019t be healed if you aren\u2019t stoned!\u201d (old hippie grower fed up with criticism of side effects of cannabis).\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nIt\u2019s A Wrap<\/strong>\nIsrael\n56 mins\nAmit Miller, Miri Urman<\/p>\nHaya invites family and friends to a farewell party. Farewell to what? \u201cTo life,\u201d she says cheerfully. She has terminal cancer and wants to die on her own terms, with dignity. It\u2019s getting hard to swallow so she\u2019s stopped taking food and medicine, though she does smoke enormous joints (\u201cCannabis\u2026Good\u201d) and still paints her lips red. Her determined stoicism is both wise and natural, and reasonable. \u201cI\u2019m afraid of pain and nothing else,\u201d she says firmly. She would die as cheerfully and logically as she has lived, as we soon learn from her secrets. There is no fear of death to poison love, and it is miraculous to watch this indescribably lovely grandmother musician take leave of this world by making peace with all in it. An extraordinary documentary and the opposite of depressing.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nBlood Rain<\/strong>\nThailand\n73 mins\nAchitaphon Piansukprasert<\/p>\nIf true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in \u2018Blood Rain\u2019, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose \u2018Gagee: The Lady\u2019s Tale\u2019. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nPain of Silence<\/strong>\nThailand,\n77 mins,\nChristopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong<\/p>\nThree years gone by, no gig. The pandemic lockdown has plunged traditional performance arts into a coma, with many accomplished Isan musicians forced to take up construction jobs. The star is Boonma, a blind Isan phin master who taught himself from hearing others play. He has to be carefully led to a red plastic chair on a makeshift stage, but then plays like an angel from heaven. We see him perform seated on a junk cart pushed by his not young wife; the COVID mask has scrounged up his face, giving him a sour and bewildered look as he fists up the coins at an intersection. We see a mermaid puppet swim in air among ancient ruins. But all interviewees are wonderful, the real thing, in this beautifully-shot labour of true love that dives headfirst into the meaning and purpose of art. Where is the Ministry of Culture in all this? In a priceless scene an official at the Cultural Promotion Dept details his massive workload: cultural promotion of course, royal ceremonies as well, and \u201ccontemporary art is important too\u2014we can\u2019t just stay the same.\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nTake Your Space<\/strong>\nCzech\n76 mins\nKarol\u00edna Alvarez<\/p>\nThere\u2019s not one bad frame in this beautifully filmed and edited art documentary, a headlong dive into Mexican graffiti and street art. Initially a Californian import, it has grown hybrid Olmec roots, in a country so welcoming to wall painters who fit neatly into its Mexican School of Muralism. The soundtrack is anti-colonial rap: \u201cRemember, Gringo, you stole our land! You call me illegal but you took everything!\u201d Where \u201cclouds of money bring showers of bullets\u201d, rapping, skateboarding, graffiti and street art are not just cool but an authentic act of defiance. How much richer the world is that these people have chosen to paint walls instead of blowing them up.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nWinter In Pluto<\/strong>\nUS\n56 mins\nRiley Teahan<\/p>\nWe dive into the navel of the iconic torso of the Venus de Milo, and find Disco Persephone\/Aphrodite alone in her throbbing pink 1970\u2019s prison cell\/boudoir, gazing out of her round window and sometimes her pink TV, at lovers on earth. This is a contemporary dance movie, Bollywood on shroom with bodies of every shape and colour. The dancing is awesome and inspired. The last sequence has flashing lights, not good for epileptics, who scientists say should smoke more weed.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nUjan Story<\/strong>\nArmenia\n70 mins\nShahram Badakhshan Mehr<\/p>\nIt starts with a quote from Job (\u201cI\u2019ve heard of Thee by ear. Now I\u2019ve seen Thee.\u201d) so you know it\u2019s about the trials of life in Armenian Kalava, but the dreamy realism is delicious. Yes, life is tough but also joyous. So what? If that\u2019s not stoned, what is? The movie\u2019s textures are pleasurable. A grape-festooned courtyard; fruit ripening on trees as old people tend to them; bare feet squishing grapes to make wine; a highway through empty brown fields where the very earth seems charred by war; a child in pink with dark intense eyes. Families are separated by migration to safety and security in Fortress Europe and life is kind of sad but, always, beautiful, and the neon crucifix atop the hill that has gone out is restored to light. A rare film that takes you almost physically there on a magic carpet.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nAmerican Pot Story: Oaksterdam<\/strong>\nUS\n96 mins\nRavit Markus, Dan Katzir<\/p>\nA serious film about seriously brave and lovely people, this important documentary on the history of the legalisation campaign in the US is the untold story of the \u2018Mayor of Oaksterdam\u2019 Richard Lee, a ganja activist in a wheelchair (\u201cBusiness is my activism\u201d; \u201cBreak the law to change the law\u201d; \u201cControl and tax pot\u201d), as told by his sidekick and successor Dale Sky Jones. The dark climax is reached when no cops are available to stop a mass shooting at a Christian university nearby because they are all busy staging an overkill FBI raid on Richard\u2019s Oaksterdam University pot business school. Dale: \u201cThis is about decriminalisation as much as legalisation. People are arrested, their lives destroyed.\u201d The raid and the expensive lobbying campaign to end prohibition ruin them, but by putting the ganja debate into mainstream politics, \u201cWe can honestly say we\u2019ve left the world better than we found it.\u201d Indeed you have, and thank you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n3 Short programs<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. 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![\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n8 Features<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nCannabis Medicinal<\/strong>\nArgentina\n61 mins\nSara Silvia Kochen, Emiliano Serra<\/p>\nThe beautiful pioneers of cannabis research in this solidly enlightening documentary inspire and console us, and it\u2019s not just the autism and epilepsy mums who\u2019ve done so much to end prohibition. At its heart is a university research chemist whose brief \u2018The Scientific Basis of Cannabis\u2019 is covered by special governmental permits. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the chemical difference in our brain between when we\u2019re happy and unhappy,\u201d he says, explaining the compound he\u2019s named Anandamide from Sanskrit Anandamida, \u201cThe mechanism of cannabis is a great mystery.\u201d Other memorable lines: \u201cIt\u2019s not a gateway drug but a gateway to exit addiction. That\u2019s part of the demonising\u201d (a hospital doctor); \u201cIt was the first time he found something funny\u201d (mum whose autistic son laughed for the first time in his life); \u201cYou can\u2019t be healed if you aren\u2019t stoned!\u201d (old hippie grower fed up with criticism of side effects of cannabis).\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nIt\u2019s A Wrap<\/strong>\nIsrael\n56 mins\nAmit Miller, Miri Urman<\/p>\nHaya invites family and friends to a farewell party. Farewell to what? \u201cTo life,\u201d she says cheerfully. She has terminal cancer and wants to die on her own terms, with dignity. It\u2019s getting hard to swallow so she\u2019s stopped taking food and medicine, though she does smoke enormous joints (\u201cCannabis\u2026Good\u201d) and still paints her lips red. Her determined stoicism is both wise and natural, and reasonable. \u201cI\u2019m afraid of pain and nothing else,\u201d she says firmly. She would die as cheerfully and logically as she has lived, as we soon learn from her secrets. There is no fear of death to poison love, and it is miraculous to watch this indescribably lovely grandmother musician take leave of this world by making peace with all in it. An extraordinary documentary and the opposite of depressing.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nBlood Rain<\/strong>\nThailand\n73 mins\nAchitaphon Piansukprasert<\/p>\nIf true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in \u2018Blood Rain\u2019, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose \u2018Gagee: The Lady\u2019s Tale\u2019. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nPain of Silence<\/strong>\nThailand,\n77 mins,\nChristopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong<\/p>\nThree years gone by, no gig. The pandemic lockdown has plunged traditional performance arts into a coma, with many accomplished Isan musicians forced to take up construction jobs. The star is Boonma, a blind Isan phin master who taught himself from hearing others play. He has to be carefully led to a red plastic chair on a makeshift stage, but then plays like an angel from heaven. We see him perform seated on a junk cart pushed by his not young wife; the COVID mask has scrounged up his face, giving him a sour and bewildered look as he fists up the coins at an intersection. We see a mermaid puppet swim in air among ancient ruins. But all interviewees are wonderful, the real thing, in this beautifully-shot labour of true love that dives headfirst into the meaning and purpose of art. Where is the Ministry of Culture in all this? In a priceless scene an official at the Cultural Promotion Dept details his massive workload: cultural promotion of course, royal ceremonies as well, and \u201ccontemporary art is important too\u2014we can\u2019t just stay the same.\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nTake Your Space<\/strong>\nCzech\n76 mins\nKarol\u00edna Alvarez<\/p>\nThere\u2019s not one bad frame in this beautifully filmed and edited art documentary, a headlong dive into Mexican graffiti and street art. Initially a Californian import, it has grown hybrid Olmec roots, in a country so welcoming to wall painters who fit neatly into its Mexican School of Muralism. The soundtrack is anti-colonial rap: \u201cRemember, Gringo, you stole our land! You call me illegal but you took everything!\u201d Where \u201cclouds of money bring showers of bullets\u201d, rapping, skateboarding, graffiti and street art are not just cool but an authentic act of defiance. How much richer the world is that these people have chosen to paint walls instead of blowing them up.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nWinter In Pluto<\/strong>\nUS\n56 mins\nRiley Teahan<\/p>\nWe dive into the navel of the iconic torso of the Venus de Milo, and find Disco Persephone\/Aphrodite alone in her throbbing pink 1970\u2019s prison cell\/boudoir, gazing out of her round window and sometimes her pink TV, at lovers on earth. This is a contemporary dance movie, Bollywood on shroom with bodies of every shape and colour. The dancing is awesome and inspired. The last sequence has flashing lights, not good for epileptics, who scientists say should smoke more weed.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nUjan Story<\/strong>\nArmenia\n70 mins\nShahram Badakhshan Mehr<\/p>\nIt starts with a quote from Job (\u201cI\u2019ve heard of Thee by ear. Now I\u2019ve seen Thee.\u201d) so you know it\u2019s about the trials of life in Armenian Kalava, but the dreamy realism is delicious. Yes, life is tough but also joyous. So what? If that\u2019s not stoned, what is? The movie\u2019s textures are pleasurable. A grape-festooned courtyard; fruit ripening on trees as old people tend to them; bare feet squishing grapes to make wine; a highway through empty brown fields where the very earth seems charred by war; a child in pink with dark intense eyes. Families are separated by migration to safety and security in Fortress Europe and life is kind of sad but, always, beautiful, and the neon crucifix atop the hill that has gone out is restored to light. A rare film that takes you almost physically there on a magic carpet.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nAmerican Pot Story: Oaksterdam<\/strong>\nUS\n96 mins\nRavit Markus, Dan Katzir<\/p>\nA serious film about seriously brave and lovely people, this important documentary on the history of the legalisation campaign in the US is the untold story of the \u2018Mayor of Oaksterdam\u2019 Richard Lee, a ganja activist in a wheelchair (\u201cBusiness is my activism\u201d; \u201cBreak the law to change the law\u201d; \u201cControl and tax pot\u201d), as told by his sidekick and successor Dale Sky Jones. The dark climax is reached when no cops are available to stop a mass shooting at a Christian university nearby because they are all busy staging an overkill FBI raid on Richard\u2019s Oaksterdam University pot business school. Dale: \u201cThis is about decriminalisation as much as legalisation. People are arrested, their lives destroyed.\u201d The raid and the expensive lobbying campaign to end prohibition ruin them, but by putting the ganja debate into mainstream politics, \u201cWe can honestly say we\u2019ve left the world better than we found it.\u201d Indeed you have, and thank you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n3 Short programs<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. No close-ups until he eats a watermelon, its sweet juice salty with his tears.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\u0e1a\u0e23\u0e23\u0e22\u0e32\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e07\u0e32\u0e19\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e23\u0e32\u0e07\u0e27\u0e31\u0e25\u0e1b\u0e35\u0e41\u0e23\u0e01 :<\/div>\nhttps:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/…\/call-for-entries-amazing…\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFor more information<\/div>\nplease contact:<\/div>\n096 112 2601<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFacebook : Cinema Oasis<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazing Stoner Movie Fest 2023 is back!! 9 \u2013 12 November 2023 at Cinema Oasis in Bangkok, Thailand __________________________________ Amazing Stoner Movie Manifesto What is a stoner movie?This was the Golden Ganja question as we watched the exotic entries one after another. 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![\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n8 Features<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nCannabis Medicinal<\/strong>\nArgentina\n61 mins\nSara Silvia Kochen, Emiliano Serra<\/p>\nThe beautiful pioneers of cannabis research in this solidly enlightening documentary inspire and console us, and it\u2019s not just the autism and epilepsy mums who\u2019ve done so much to end prohibition. At its heart is a university research chemist whose brief \u2018The Scientific Basis of Cannabis\u2019 is covered by special governmental permits. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the chemical difference in our brain between when we\u2019re happy and unhappy,\u201d he says, explaining the compound he\u2019s named Anandamide from Sanskrit Anandamida, \u201cThe mechanism of cannabis is a great mystery.\u201d Other memorable lines: \u201cIt\u2019s not a gateway drug but a gateway to exit addiction. That\u2019s part of the demonising\u201d (a hospital doctor); \u201cIt was the first time he found something funny\u201d (mum whose autistic son laughed for the first time in his life); \u201cYou can\u2019t be healed if you aren\u2019t stoned!\u201d (old hippie grower fed up with criticism of side effects of cannabis).\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nIt\u2019s A Wrap<\/strong>\nIsrael\n56 mins\nAmit Miller, Miri Urman<\/p>\nHaya invites family and friends to a farewell party. Farewell to what? \u201cTo life,\u201d she says cheerfully. She has terminal cancer and wants to die on her own terms, with dignity. It\u2019s getting hard to swallow so she\u2019s stopped taking food and medicine, though she does smoke enormous joints (\u201cCannabis\u2026Good\u201d) and still paints her lips red. Her determined stoicism is both wise and natural, and reasonable. \u201cI\u2019m afraid of pain and nothing else,\u201d she says firmly. She would die as cheerfully and logically as she has lived, as we soon learn from her secrets. There is no fear of death to poison love, and it is miraculous to watch this indescribably lovely grandmother musician take leave of this world by making peace with all in it. An extraordinary documentary and the opposite of depressing.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nBlood Rain<\/strong>\nThailand\n73 mins\nAchitaphon Piansukprasert<\/p>\nIf true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in \u2018Blood Rain\u2019, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose \u2018Gagee: The Lady\u2019s Tale\u2019. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nPain of Silence<\/strong>\nThailand,\n77 mins,\nChristopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong<\/p>\nThree years gone by, no gig. The pandemic lockdown has plunged traditional performance arts into a coma, with many accomplished Isan musicians forced to take up construction jobs. The star is Boonma, a blind Isan phin master who taught himself from hearing others play. He has to be carefully led to a red plastic chair on a makeshift stage, but then plays like an angel from heaven. We see him perform seated on a junk cart pushed by his not young wife; the COVID mask has scrounged up his face, giving him a sour and bewildered look as he fists up the coins at an intersection. We see a mermaid puppet swim in air among ancient ruins. But all interviewees are wonderful, the real thing, in this beautifully-shot labour of true love that dives headfirst into the meaning and purpose of art. Where is the Ministry of Culture in all this? In a priceless scene an official at the Cultural Promotion Dept details his massive workload: cultural promotion of course, royal ceremonies as well, and \u201ccontemporary art is important too\u2014we can\u2019t just stay the same.\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nTake Your Space<\/strong>\nCzech\n76 mins\nKarol\u00edna Alvarez<\/p>\nThere\u2019s not one bad frame in this beautifully filmed and edited art documentary, a headlong dive into Mexican graffiti and street art. Initially a Californian import, it has grown hybrid Olmec roots, in a country so welcoming to wall painters who fit neatly into its Mexican School of Muralism. The soundtrack is anti-colonial rap: \u201cRemember, Gringo, you stole our land! You call me illegal but you took everything!\u201d Where \u201cclouds of money bring showers of bullets\u201d, rapping, skateboarding, graffiti and street art are not just cool but an authentic act of defiance. How much richer the world is that these people have chosen to paint walls instead of blowing them up.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nWinter In Pluto<\/strong>\nUS\n56 mins\nRiley Teahan<\/p>\nWe dive into the navel of the iconic torso of the Venus de Milo, and find Disco Persephone\/Aphrodite alone in her throbbing pink 1970\u2019s prison cell\/boudoir, gazing out of her round window and sometimes her pink TV, at lovers on earth. This is a contemporary dance movie, Bollywood on shroom with bodies of every shape and colour. The dancing is awesome and inspired. The last sequence has flashing lights, not good for epileptics, who scientists say should smoke more weed.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nUjan Story<\/strong>\nArmenia\n70 mins\nShahram Badakhshan Mehr<\/p>\nIt starts with a quote from Job (\u201cI\u2019ve heard of Thee by ear. Now I\u2019ve seen Thee.\u201d) so you know it\u2019s about the trials of life in Armenian Kalava, but the dreamy realism is delicious. Yes, life is tough but also joyous. So what? If that\u2019s not stoned, what is? The movie\u2019s textures are pleasurable. A grape-festooned courtyard; fruit ripening on trees as old people tend to them; bare feet squishing grapes to make wine; a highway through empty brown fields where the very earth seems charred by war; a child in pink with dark intense eyes. Families are separated by migration to safety and security in Fortress Europe and life is kind of sad but, always, beautiful, and the neon crucifix atop the hill that has gone out is restored to light. A rare film that takes you almost physically there on a magic carpet.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nAmerican Pot Story: Oaksterdam<\/strong>\nUS\n96 mins\nRavit Markus, Dan Katzir<\/p>\nA serious film about seriously brave and lovely people, this important documentary on the history of the legalisation campaign in the US is the untold story of the \u2018Mayor of Oaksterdam\u2019 Richard Lee, a ganja activist in a wheelchair (\u201cBusiness is my activism\u201d; \u201cBreak the law to change the law\u201d; \u201cControl and tax pot\u201d), as told by his sidekick and successor Dale Sky Jones. The dark climax is reached when no cops are available to stop a mass shooting at a Christian university nearby because they are all busy staging an overkill FBI raid on Richard\u2019s Oaksterdam University pot business school. Dale: \u201cThis is about decriminalisation as much as legalisation. People are arrested, their lives destroyed.\u201d The raid and the expensive lobbying campaign to end prohibition ruin them, but by putting the ganja debate into mainstream politics, \u201cWe can honestly say we\u2019ve left the world better than we found it.\u201d Indeed you have, and thank you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n3 Short programs<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. No close-ups until he eats a watermelon, its sweet juice salty with his tears.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\u0e1a\u0e23\u0e23\u0e22\u0e32\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e07\u0e32\u0e19\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e23\u0e32\u0e07\u0e27\u0e31\u0e25\u0e1b\u0e35\u0e41\u0e23\u0e01 :<\/div>\nhttps:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/…\/call-for-entries-amazing…\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFor more information<\/div>\nplease contact:<\/div>\n096 112 2601<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFacebook : Cinema Oasis<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazing Stoner Movie Fest 2023 is back!! 9 \u2013 12 November 2023 at Cinema Oasis in Bangkok, Thailand __________________________________ Amazing Stoner Movie Manifesto What is a stoner movie?This was the Golden Ganja question as we watched the exotic entries one after another. 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![\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n8 Features<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nCannabis Medicinal<\/strong>\nArgentina\n61 mins\nSara Silvia Kochen, Emiliano Serra<\/p>\nThe beautiful pioneers of cannabis research in this solidly enlightening documentary inspire and console us, and it\u2019s not just the autism and epilepsy mums who\u2019ve done so much to end prohibition. At its heart is a university research chemist whose brief \u2018The Scientific Basis of Cannabis\u2019 is covered by special governmental permits. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the chemical difference in our brain between when we\u2019re happy and unhappy,\u201d he says, explaining the compound he\u2019s named Anandamide from Sanskrit Anandamida, \u201cThe mechanism of cannabis is a great mystery.\u201d Other memorable lines: \u201cIt\u2019s not a gateway drug but a gateway to exit addiction. That\u2019s part of the demonising\u201d (a hospital doctor); \u201cIt was the first time he found something funny\u201d (mum whose autistic son laughed for the first time in his life); \u201cYou can\u2019t be healed if you aren\u2019t stoned!\u201d (old hippie grower fed up with criticism of side effects of cannabis).\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nIt\u2019s A Wrap<\/strong>\nIsrael\n56 mins\nAmit Miller, Miri Urman<\/p>\nHaya invites family and friends to a farewell party. Farewell to what? \u201cTo life,\u201d she says cheerfully. She has terminal cancer and wants to die on her own terms, with dignity. It\u2019s getting hard to swallow so she\u2019s stopped taking food and medicine, though she does smoke enormous joints (\u201cCannabis\u2026Good\u201d) and still paints her lips red. Her determined stoicism is both wise and natural, and reasonable. \u201cI\u2019m afraid of pain and nothing else,\u201d she says firmly. She would die as cheerfully and logically as she has lived, as we soon learn from her secrets. There is no fear of death to poison love, and it is miraculous to watch this indescribably lovely grandmother musician take leave of this world by making peace with all in it. An extraordinary documentary and the opposite of depressing.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nBlood Rain<\/strong>\nThailand\n73 mins\nAchitaphon Piansukprasert<\/p>\nIf true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in \u2018Blood Rain\u2019, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose \u2018Gagee: The Lady\u2019s Tale\u2019. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nPain of Silence<\/strong>\nThailand,\n77 mins,\nChristopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong<\/p>\nThree years gone by, no gig. The pandemic lockdown has plunged traditional performance arts into a coma, with many accomplished Isan musicians forced to take up construction jobs. The star is Boonma, a blind Isan phin master who taught himself from hearing others play. He has to be carefully led to a red plastic chair on a makeshift stage, but then plays like an angel from heaven. We see him perform seated on a junk cart pushed by his not young wife; the COVID mask has scrounged up his face, giving him a sour and bewildered look as he fists up the coins at an intersection. We see a mermaid puppet swim in air among ancient ruins. But all interviewees are wonderful, the real thing, in this beautifully-shot labour of true love that dives headfirst into the meaning and purpose of art. Where is the Ministry of Culture in all this? In a priceless scene an official at the Cultural Promotion Dept details his massive workload: cultural promotion of course, royal ceremonies as well, and \u201ccontemporary art is important too\u2014we can\u2019t just stay the same.\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nTake Your Space<\/strong>\nCzech\n76 mins\nKarol\u00edna Alvarez<\/p>\nThere\u2019s not one bad frame in this beautifully filmed and edited art documentary, a headlong dive into Mexican graffiti and street art. Initially a Californian import, it has grown hybrid Olmec roots, in a country so welcoming to wall painters who fit neatly into its Mexican School of Muralism. The soundtrack is anti-colonial rap: \u201cRemember, Gringo, you stole our land! You call me illegal but you took everything!\u201d Where \u201cclouds of money bring showers of bullets\u201d, rapping, skateboarding, graffiti and street art are not just cool but an authentic act of defiance. How much richer the world is that these people have chosen to paint walls instead of blowing them up.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nWinter In Pluto<\/strong>\nUS\n56 mins\nRiley Teahan<\/p>\nWe dive into the navel of the iconic torso of the Venus de Milo, and find Disco Persephone\/Aphrodite alone in her throbbing pink 1970\u2019s prison cell\/boudoir, gazing out of her round window and sometimes her pink TV, at lovers on earth. This is a contemporary dance movie, Bollywood on shroom with bodies of every shape and colour. The dancing is awesome and inspired. The last sequence has flashing lights, not good for epileptics, who scientists say should smoke more weed.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nUjan Story<\/strong>\nArmenia\n70 mins\nShahram Badakhshan Mehr<\/p>\nIt starts with a quote from Job (\u201cI\u2019ve heard of Thee by ear. Now I\u2019ve seen Thee.\u201d) so you know it\u2019s about the trials of life in Armenian Kalava, but the dreamy realism is delicious. Yes, life is tough but also joyous. So what? If that\u2019s not stoned, what is? The movie\u2019s textures are pleasurable. A grape-festooned courtyard; fruit ripening on trees as old people tend to them; bare feet squishing grapes to make wine; a highway through empty brown fields where the very earth seems charred by war; a child in pink with dark intense eyes. Families are separated by migration to safety and security in Fortress Europe and life is kind of sad but, always, beautiful, and the neon crucifix atop the hill that has gone out is restored to light. A rare film that takes you almost physically there on a magic carpet.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nAmerican Pot Story: Oaksterdam<\/strong>\nUS\n96 mins\nRavit Markus, Dan Katzir<\/p>\nA serious film about seriously brave and lovely people, this important documentary on the history of the legalisation campaign in the US is the untold story of the \u2018Mayor of Oaksterdam\u2019 Richard Lee, a ganja activist in a wheelchair (\u201cBusiness is my activism\u201d; \u201cBreak the law to change the law\u201d; \u201cControl and tax pot\u201d), as told by his sidekick and successor Dale Sky Jones. The dark climax is reached when no cops are available to stop a mass shooting at a Christian university nearby because they are all busy staging an overkill FBI raid on Richard\u2019s Oaksterdam University pot business school. Dale: \u201cThis is about decriminalisation as much as legalisation. People are arrested, their lives destroyed.\u201d The raid and the expensive lobbying campaign to end prohibition ruin them, but by putting the ganja debate into mainstream politics, \u201cWe can honestly say we\u2019ve left the world better than we found it.\u201d Indeed you have, and thank you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n3 Short programs<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. No close-ups until he eats a watermelon, its sweet juice salty with his tears.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\u0e1a\u0e23\u0e23\u0e22\u0e32\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e07\u0e32\u0e19\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e23\u0e32\u0e07\u0e27\u0e31\u0e25\u0e1b\u0e35\u0e41\u0e23\u0e01 :<\/div>\nhttps:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/…\/call-for-entries-amazing…\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFor more information<\/div>\nplease contact:<\/div>\n096 112 2601<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFacebook : Cinema Oasis<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazing Stoner Movie Fest 2023 is back!! 9 \u2013 12 November 2023 at Cinema Oasis in Bangkok, Thailand __________________________________ Amazing Stoner Movie Manifesto What is a stoner movie?This was the Golden Ganja question as we watched the exotic entries one after another. 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![\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n8 Features<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nCannabis Medicinal<\/strong>\nArgentina\n61 mins\nSara Silvia Kochen, Emiliano Serra<\/p>\nThe beautiful pioneers of cannabis research in this solidly enlightening documentary inspire and console us, and it\u2019s not just the autism and epilepsy mums who\u2019ve done so much to end prohibition. At its heart is a university research chemist whose brief \u2018The Scientific Basis of Cannabis\u2019 is covered by special governmental permits. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the chemical difference in our brain between when we\u2019re happy and unhappy,\u201d he says, explaining the compound he\u2019s named Anandamide from Sanskrit Anandamida, \u201cThe mechanism of cannabis is a great mystery.\u201d Other memorable lines: \u201cIt\u2019s not a gateway drug but a gateway to exit addiction. That\u2019s part of the demonising\u201d (a hospital doctor); \u201cIt was the first time he found something funny\u201d (mum whose autistic son laughed for the first time in his life); \u201cYou can\u2019t be healed if you aren\u2019t stoned!\u201d (old hippie grower fed up with criticism of side effects of cannabis).\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nIt\u2019s A Wrap<\/strong>\nIsrael\n56 mins\nAmit Miller, Miri Urman<\/p>\nHaya invites family and friends to a farewell party. Farewell to what? \u201cTo life,\u201d she says cheerfully. She has terminal cancer and wants to die on her own terms, with dignity. It\u2019s getting hard to swallow so she\u2019s stopped taking food and medicine, though she does smoke enormous joints (\u201cCannabis\u2026Good\u201d) and still paints her lips red. Her determined stoicism is both wise and natural, and reasonable. \u201cI\u2019m afraid of pain and nothing else,\u201d she says firmly. She would die as cheerfully and logically as she has lived, as we soon learn from her secrets. There is no fear of death to poison love, and it is miraculous to watch this indescribably lovely grandmother musician take leave of this world by making peace with all in it. An extraordinary documentary and the opposite of depressing.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nBlood Rain<\/strong>\nThailand\n73 mins\nAchitaphon Piansukprasert<\/p>\nIf true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in \u2018Blood Rain\u2019, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose \u2018Gagee: The Lady\u2019s Tale\u2019. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nPain of Silence<\/strong>\nThailand,\n77 mins,\nChristopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong<\/p>\nThree years gone by, no gig. The pandemic lockdown has plunged traditional performance arts into a coma, with many accomplished Isan musicians forced to take up construction jobs. The star is Boonma, a blind Isan phin master who taught himself from hearing others play. He has to be carefully led to a red plastic chair on a makeshift stage, but then plays like an angel from heaven. We see him perform seated on a junk cart pushed by his not young wife; the COVID mask has scrounged up his face, giving him a sour and bewildered look as he fists up the coins at an intersection. We see a mermaid puppet swim in air among ancient ruins. But all interviewees are wonderful, the real thing, in this beautifully-shot labour of true love that dives headfirst into the meaning and purpose of art. Where is the Ministry of Culture in all this? In a priceless scene an official at the Cultural Promotion Dept details his massive workload: cultural promotion of course, royal ceremonies as well, and \u201ccontemporary art is important too\u2014we can\u2019t just stay the same.\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nTake Your Space<\/strong>\nCzech\n76 mins\nKarol\u00edna Alvarez<\/p>\nThere\u2019s not one bad frame in this beautifully filmed and edited art documentary, a headlong dive into Mexican graffiti and street art. Initially a Californian import, it has grown hybrid Olmec roots, in a country so welcoming to wall painters who fit neatly into its Mexican School of Muralism. The soundtrack is anti-colonial rap: \u201cRemember, Gringo, you stole our land! You call me illegal but you took everything!\u201d Where \u201cclouds of money bring showers of bullets\u201d, rapping, skateboarding, graffiti and street art are not just cool but an authentic act of defiance. How much richer the world is that these people have chosen to paint walls instead of blowing them up.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nWinter In Pluto<\/strong>\nUS\n56 mins\nRiley Teahan<\/p>\nWe dive into the navel of the iconic torso of the Venus de Milo, and find Disco Persephone\/Aphrodite alone in her throbbing pink 1970\u2019s prison cell\/boudoir, gazing out of her round window and sometimes her pink TV, at lovers on earth. This is a contemporary dance movie, Bollywood on shroom with bodies of every shape and colour. The dancing is awesome and inspired. The last sequence has flashing lights, not good for epileptics, who scientists say should smoke more weed.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nUjan Story<\/strong>\nArmenia\n70 mins\nShahram Badakhshan Mehr<\/p>\nIt starts with a quote from Job (\u201cI\u2019ve heard of Thee by ear. Now I\u2019ve seen Thee.\u201d) so you know it\u2019s about the trials of life in Armenian Kalava, but the dreamy realism is delicious. Yes, life is tough but also joyous. So what? If that\u2019s not stoned, what is? The movie\u2019s textures are pleasurable. A grape-festooned courtyard; fruit ripening on trees as old people tend to them; bare feet squishing grapes to make wine; a highway through empty brown fields where the very earth seems charred by war; a child in pink with dark intense eyes. Families are separated by migration to safety and security in Fortress Europe and life is kind of sad but, always, beautiful, and the neon crucifix atop the hill that has gone out is restored to light. A rare film that takes you almost physically there on a magic carpet.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nAmerican Pot Story: Oaksterdam<\/strong>\nUS\n96 mins\nRavit Markus, Dan Katzir<\/p>\nA serious film about seriously brave and lovely people, this important documentary on the history of the legalisation campaign in the US is the untold story of the \u2018Mayor of Oaksterdam\u2019 Richard Lee, a ganja activist in a wheelchair (\u201cBusiness is my activism\u201d; \u201cBreak the law to change the law\u201d; \u201cControl and tax pot\u201d), as told by his sidekick and successor Dale Sky Jones. The dark climax is reached when no cops are available to stop a mass shooting at a Christian university nearby because they are all busy staging an overkill FBI raid on Richard\u2019s Oaksterdam University pot business school. Dale: \u201cThis is about decriminalisation as much as legalisation. People are arrested, their lives destroyed.\u201d The raid and the expensive lobbying campaign to end prohibition ruin them, but by putting the ganja debate into mainstream politics, \u201cWe can honestly say we\u2019ve left the world better than we found it.\u201d Indeed you have, and thank you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n3 Short programs<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. No close-ups until he eats a watermelon, its sweet juice salty with his tears.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\u0e1a\u0e23\u0e23\u0e22\u0e32\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e07\u0e32\u0e19\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e23\u0e32\u0e07\u0e27\u0e31\u0e25\u0e1b\u0e35\u0e41\u0e23\u0e01 :<\/div>\nhttps:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/…\/call-for-entries-amazing…\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFor more information<\/div>\nplease contact:<\/div>\n096 112 2601<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFacebook : Cinema Oasis<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazing Stoner Movie Fest 2023 is back!! 9 \u2013 12 November 2023 at Cinema Oasis in Bangkok, Thailand __________________________________ Amazing Stoner Movie Manifesto What is a stoner movie?This was the Golden Ganja question as we watched the exotic entries one after another. 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![\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n<\/p>\n8 Features<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nCannabis Medicinal<\/strong>\nArgentina\n61 mins\nSara Silvia Kochen, Emiliano Serra<\/p>\nThe beautiful pioneers of cannabis research in this solidly enlightening documentary inspire and console us, and it\u2019s not just the autism and epilepsy mums who\u2019ve done so much to end prohibition. At its heart is a university research chemist whose brief \u2018The Scientific Basis of Cannabis\u2019 is covered by special governmental permits. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the chemical difference in our brain between when we\u2019re happy and unhappy,\u201d he says, explaining the compound he\u2019s named Anandamide from Sanskrit Anandamida, \u201cThe mechanism of cannabis is a great mystery.\u201d Other memorable lines: \u201cIt\u2019s not a gateway drug but a gateway to exit addiction. That\u2019s part of the demonising\u201d (a hospital doctor); \u201cIt was the first time he found something funny\u201d (mum whose autistic son laughed for the first time in his life); \u201cYou can\u2019t be healed if you aren\u2019t stoned!\u201d (old hippie grower fed up with criticism of side effects of cannabis).\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nIt\u2019s A Wrap<\/strong>\nIsrael\n56 mins\nAmit Miller, Miri Urman<\/p>\nHaya invites family and friends to a farewell party. Farewell to what? \u201cTo life,\u201d she says cheerfully. She has terminal cancer and wants to die on her own terms, with dignity. It\u2019s getting hard to swallow so she\u2019s stopped taking food and medicine, though she does smoke enormous joints (\u201cCannabis\u2026Good\u201d) and still paints her lips red. Her determined stoicism is both wise and natural, and reasonable. \u201cI\u2019m afraid of pain and nothing else,\u201d she says firmly. She would die as cheerfully and logically as she has lived, as we soon learn from her secrets. There is no fear of death to poison love, and it is miraculous to watch this indescribably lovely grandmother musician take leave of this world by making peace with all in it. An extraordinary documentary and the opposite of depressing.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nBlood Rain<\/strong>\nThailand\n73 mins\nAchitaphon Piansukprasert<\/p>\nIf true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in \u2018Blood Rain\u2019, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose \u2018Gagee: The Lady\u2019s Tale\u2019. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nPain of Silence<\/strong>\nThailand,\n77 mins,\nChristopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong<\/p>\nThree years gone by, no gig. The pandemic lockdown has plunged traditional performance arts into a coma, with many accomplished Isan musicians forced to take up construction jobs. The star is Boonma, a blind Isan phin master who taught himself from hearing others play. He has to be carefully led to a red plastic chair on a makeshift stage, but then plays like an angel from heaven. We see him perform seated on a junk cart pushed by his not young wife; the COVID mask has scrounged up his face, giving him a sour and bewildered look as he fists up the coins at an intersection. We see a mermaid puppet swim in air among ancient ruins. But all interviewees are wonderful, the real thing, in this beautifully-shot labour of true love that dives headfirst into the meaning and purpose of art. Where is the Ministry of Culture in all this? In a priceless scene an official at the Cultural Promotion Dept details his massive workload: cultural promotion of course, royal ceremonies as well, and \u201ccontemporary art is important too\u2014we can\u2019t just stay the same.\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nTake Your Space<\/strong>\nCzech\n76 mins\nKarol\u00edna Alvarez<\/p>\nThere\u2019s not one bad frame in this beautifully filmed and edited art documentary, a headlong dive into Mexican graffiti and street art. Initially a Californian import, it has grown hybrid Olmec roots, in a country so welcoming to wall painters who fit neatly into its Mexican School of Muralism. The soundtrack is anti-colonial rap: \u201cRemember, Gringo, you stole our land! You call me illegal but you took everything!\u201d Where \u201cclouds of money bring showers of bullets\u201d, rapping, skateboarding, graffiti and street art are not just cool but an authentic act of defiance. How much richer the world is that these people have chosen to paint walls instead of blowing them up.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nWinter In Pluto<\/strong>\nUS\n56 mins\nRiley Teahan<\/p>\nWe dive into the navel of the iconic torso of the Venus de Milo, and find Disco Persephone\/Aphrodite alone in her throbbing pink 1970\u2019s prison cell\/boudoir, gazing out of her round window and sometimes her pink TV, at lovers on earth. This is a contemporary dance movie, Bollywood on shroom with bodies of every shape and colour. The dancing is awesome and inspired. The last sequence has flashing lights, not good for epileptics, who scientists say should smoke more weed.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nUjan Story<\/strong>\nArmenia\n70 mins\nShahram Badakhshan Mehr<\/p>\nIt starts with a quote from Job (\u201cI\u2019ve heard of Thee by ear. Now I\u2019ve seen Thee.\u201d) so you know it\u2019s about the trials of life in Armenian Kalava, but the dreamy realism is delicious. Yes, life is tough but also joyous. So what? If that\u2019s not stoned, what is? The movie\u2019s textures are pleasurable. A grape-festooned courtyard; fruit ripening on trees as old people tend to them; bare feet squishing grapes to make wine; a highway through empty brown fields where the very earth seems charred by war; a child in pink with dark intense eyes. Families are separated by migration to safety and security in Fortress Europe and life is kind of sad but, always, beautiful, and the neon crucifix atop the hill that has gone out is restored to light. A rare film that takes you almost physically there on a magic carpet.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nAmerican Pot Story: Oaksterdam<\/strong>\nUS\n96 mins\nRavit Markus, Dan Katzir<\/p>\nA serious film about seriously brave and lovely people, this important documentary on the history of the legalisation campaign in the US is the untold story of the \u2018Mayor of Oaksterdam\u2019 Richard Lee, a ganja activist in a wheelchair (\u201cBusiness is my activism\u201d; \u201cBreak the law to change the law\u201d; \u201cControl and tax pot\u201d), as told by his sidekick and successor Dale Sky Jones. The dark climax is reached when no cops are available to stop a mass shooting at a Christian university nearby because they are all busy staging an overkill FBI raid on Richard\u2019s Oaksterdam University pot business school. Dale: \u201cThis is about decriminalisation as much as legalisation. People are arrested, their lives destroyed.\u201d The raid and the expensive lobbying campaign to end prohibition ruin them, but by putting the ganja debate into mainstream politics, \u201cWe can honestly say we\u2019ve left the world better than we found it.\u201d Indeed you have, and thank you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n3 Short programs<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. No close-ups until he eats a watermelon, its sweet juice salty with his tears.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\u0e1a\u0e23\u0e23\u0e22\u0e32\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e07\u0e32\u0e19\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e23\u0e32\u0e07\u0e27\u0e31\u0e25\u0e1b\u0e35\u0e41\u0e23\u0e01 :<\/div>\nhttps:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/…\/call-for-entries-amazing…\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFor more information<\/div>\nplease contact:<\/div>\n096 112 2601<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFacebook : Cinema Oasis<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazing Stoner Movie Fest 2023 is back!! 9 \u2013 12 November 2023 at Cinema Oasis in Bangkok, Thailand __________________________________ Amazing Stoner Movie Manifesto What is a stoner movie?This was the Golden Ganja question as we watched the exotic entries one after another. 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8 Features<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n ____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n
Cannabis Medicinal<\/strong>
\nArgentina
\n61 mins
\nSara Silvia Kochen, Emiliano Serra<\/p>\nThe beautiful pioneers of cannabis research in this solidly enlightening documentary inspire and console us, and it\u2019s not just the autism and epilepsy mums who\u2019ve done so much to end prohibition. At its heart is a university research chemist whose brief \u2018The Scientific Basis of Cannabis\u2019 is covered by special governmental permits. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the chemical difference in our brain between when we\u2019re happy and unhappy,\u201d he says, explaining the compound he\u2019s named Anandamide from Sanskrit Anandamida, \u201cThe mechanism of cannabis is a great mystery.\u201d Other memorable lines: \u201cIt\u2019s not a gateway drug but a gateway to exit addiction. That\u2019s part of the demonising\u201d (a hospital doctor); \u201cIt was the first time he found something funny\u201d (mum whose autistic son laughed for the first time in his life); \u201cYou can\u2019t be healed if you aren\u2019t stoned!\u201d (old hippie grower fed up with criticism of side effects of cannabis).
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It\u2019s A Wrap<\/strong>
\nIsrael
\n56 mins
\nAmit Miller, Miri Urman<\/p>\nHaya invites family and friends to a farewell party. Farewell to what? \u201cTo life,\u201d she says cheerfully. She has terminal cancer and wants to die on her own terms, with dignity. It\u2019s getting hard to swallow so she\u2019s stopped taking food and medicine, though she does smoke enormous joints (\u201cCannabis\u2026Good\u201d) and still paints her lips red. Her determined stoicism is both wise and natural, and reasonable. \u201cI\u2019m afraid of pain and nothing else,\u201d she says firmly. She would die as cheerfully and logically as she has lived, as we soon learn from her secrets. There is no fear of death to poison love, and it is miraculous to watch this indescribably lovely grandmother musician take leave of this world by making peace with all in it. An extraordinary documentary and the opposite of depressing.
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Blood Rain<\/strong>
\nThailand
\n73 mins
\nAchitaphon Piansukprasert<\/p>\nIf true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in \u2018Blood Rain\u2019, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose \u2018Gagee: The Lady\u2019s Tale\u2019. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you.
\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n
Pain of Silence<\/strong>
\nThailand,
\n77 mins,
\nChristopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong<\/p>\nThree years gone by, no gig. The pandemic lockdown has plunged traditional performance arts into a coma, with many accomplished Isan musicians forced to take up construction jobs. The star is Boonma, a blind Isan phin master who taught himself from hearing others play. He has to be carefully led to a red plastic chair on a makeshift stage, but then plays like an angel from heaven. We see him perform seated on a junk cart pushed by his not young wife; the COVID mask has scrounged up his face, giving him a sour and bewildered look as he fists up the coins at an intersection. We see a mermaid puppet swim in air among ancient ruins. But all interviewees are wonderful, the real thing, in this beautifully-shot labour of true love that dives headfirst into the meaning and purpose of art. Where is the Ministry of Culture in all this? In a priceless scene an official at the Cultural Promotion Dept details his massive workload: cultural promotion of course, royal ceremonies as well, and \u201ccontemporary art is important too\u2014we can\u2019t just stay the same.\u201d
\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n
Take Your Space<\/strong>
\nCzech
\n76 mins
\nKarol\u00edna Alvarez<\/p>\nThere\u2019s not one bad frame in this beautifully filmed and edited art documentary, a headlong dive into Mexican graffiti and street art. Initially a Californian import, it has grown hybrid Olmec roots, in a country so welcoming to wall painters who fit neatly into its Mexican School of Muralism. The soundtrack is anti-colonial rap: \u201cRemember, Gringo, you stole our land! You call me illegal but you took everything!\u201d Where \u201cclouds of money bring showers of bullets\u201d, rapping, skateboarding, graffiti and street art are not just cool but an authentic act of defiance. How much richer the world is that these people have chosen to paint walls instead of blowing them up.
\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n
Winter In Pluto<\/strong>
\nUS
\n56 mins
\nRiley Teahan<\/p>\nWe dive into the navel of the iconic torso of the Venus de Milo, and find Disco Persephone\/Aphrodite alone in her throbbing pink 1970\u2019s prison cell\/boudoir, gazing out of her round window and sometimes her pink TV, at lovers on earth. This is a contemporary dance movie, Bollywood on shroom with bodies of every shape and colour. The dancing is awesome and inspired. The last sequence has flashing lights, not good for epileptics, who scientists say should smoke more weed.
\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n
Ujan Story<\/strong>
\nArmenia
\n70 mins
\nShahram Badakhshan Mehr<\/p>\nIt starts with a quote from Job (\u201cI\u2019ve heard of Thee by ear. Now I\u2019ve seen Thee.\u201d) so you know it\u2019s about the trials of life in Armenian Kalava, but the dreamy realism is delicious. Yes, life is tough but also joyous. So what? If that\u2019s not stoned, what is? The movie\u2019s textures are pleasurable. A grape-festooned courtyard; fruit ripening on trees as old people tend to them; bare feet squishing grapes to make wine; a highway through empty brown fields where the very earth seems charred by war; a child in pink with dark intense eyes. Families are separated by migration to safety and security in Fortress Europe and life is kind of sad but, always, beautiful, and the neon crucifix atop the hill that has gone out is restored to light. A rare film that takes you almost physically there on a magic carpet.
\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n
American Pot Story: Oaksterdam<\/strong>
\nUS
\n96 mins
\nRavit Markus, Dan Katzir<\/p>\nA serious film about seriously brave and lovely people, this important documentary on the history of the legalisation campaign in the US is the untold story of the \u2018Mayor of Oaksterdam\u2019 Richard Lee, a ganja activist in a wheelchair (\u201cBusiness is my activism\u201d; \u201cBreak the law to change the law\u201d; \u201cControl and tax pot\u201d), as told by his sidekick and successor Dale Sky Jones. The dark climax is reached when no cops are available to stop a mass shooting at a Christian university nearby because they are all busy staging an overkill FBI raid on Richard\u2019s Oaksterdam University pot business school. Dale: \u201cThis is about decriminalisation as much as legalisation. People are arrested, their lives destroyed.\u201d The raid and the expensive lobbying campaign to end prohibition ruin them, but by putting the ganja debate into mainstream politics, \u201cWe can honestly say we\u2019ve left the world better than we found it.\u201d Indeed you have, and thank you.
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[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n
3 Short programs<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n
![\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nCannabis Medicinal<\/strong>\nArgentina\n61 mins\nSara Silvia Kochen, Emiliano Serra<\/p>\nThe beautiful pioneers of cannabis research in this solidly enlightening documentary inspire and console us, and it\u2019s not just the autism and epilepsy mums who\u2019ve done so much to end prohibition. At its heart is a university research chemist whose brief \u2018The Scientific Basis of Cannabis\u2019 is covered by special governmental permits. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the chemical difference in our brain between when we\u2019re happy and unhappy,\u201d he says, explaining the compound he\u2019s named Anandamide from Sanskrit Anandamida, \u201cThe mechanism of cannabis is a great mystery.\u201d Other memorable lines: \u201cIt\u2019s not a gateway drug but a gateway to exit addiction. That\u2019s part of the demonising\u201d (a hospital doctor); \u201cIt was the first time he found something funny\u201d (mum whose autistic son laughed for the first time in his life); \u201cYou can\u2019t be healed if you aren\u2019t stoned!\u201d (old hippie grower fed up with criticism of side effects of cannabis).\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nIt\u2019s A Wrap<\/strong>\nIsrael\n56 mins\nAmit Miller, Miri Urman<\/p>\nHaya invites family and friends to a farewell party. Farewell to what? \u201cTo life,\u201d she says cheerfully. She has terminal cancer and wants to die on her own terms, with dignity. It\u2019s getting hard to swallow so she\u2019s stopped taking food and medicine, though she does smoke enormous joints (\u201cCannabis\u2026Good\u201d) and still paints her lips red. Her determined stoicism is both wise and natural, and reasonable. \u201cI\u2019m afraid of pain and nothing else,\u201d she says firmly. She would die as cheerfully and logically as she has lived, as we soon learn from her secrets. There is no fear of death to poison love, and it is miraculous to watch this indescribably lovely grandmother musician take leave of this world by making peace with all in it. An extraordinary documentary and the opposite of depressing.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nBlood Rain<\/strong>\nThailand\n73 mins\nAchitaphon Piansukprasert<\/p>\nIf true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in \u2018Blood Rain\u2019, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose \u2018Gagee: The Lady\u2019s Tale\u2019. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nPain of Silence<\/strong>\nThailand,\n77 mins,\nChristopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong<\/p>\nThree years gone by, no gig. The pandemic lockdown has plunged traditional performance arts into a coma, with many accomplished Isan musicians forced to take up construction jobs. The star is Boonma, a blind Isan phin master who taught himself from hearing others play. He has to be carefully led to a red plastic chair on a makeshift stage, but then plays like an angel from heaven. We see him perform seated on a junk cart pushed by his not young wife; the COVID mask has scrounged up his face, giving him a sour and bewildered look as he fists up the coins at an intersection. We see a mermaid puppet swim in air among ancient ruins. But all interviewees are wonderful, the real thing, in this beautifully-shot labour of true love that dives headfirst into the meaning and purpose of art. Where is the Ministry of Culture in all this? In a priceless scene an official at the Cultural Promotion Dept details his massive workload: cultural promotion of course, royal ceremonies as well, and \u201ccontemporary art is important too\u2014we can\u2019t just stay the same.\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nTake Your Space<\/strong>\nCzech\n76 mins\nKarol\u00edna Alvarez<\/p>\nThere\u2019s not one bad frame in this beautifully filmed and edited art documentary, a headlong dive into Mexican graffiti and street art. Initially a Californian import, it has grown hybrid Olmec roots, in a country so welcoming to wall painters who fit neatly into its Mexican School of Muralism. The soundtrack is anti-colonial rap: \u201cRemember, Gringo, you stole our land! You call me illegal but you took everything!\u201d Where \u201cclouds of money bring showers of bullets\u201d, rapping, skateboarding, graffiti and street art are not just cool but an authentic act of defiance. How much richer the world is that these people have chosen to paint walls instead of blowing them up.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nWinter In Pluto<\/strong>\nUS\n56 mins\nRiley Teahan<\/p>\nWe dive into the navel of the iconic torso of the Venus de Milo, and find Disco Persephone\/Aphrodite alone in her throbbing pink 1970\u2019s prison cell\/boudoir, gazing out of her round window and sometimes her pink TV, at lovers on earth. This is a contemporary dance movie, Bollywood on shroom with bodies of every shape and colour. The dancing is awesome and inspired. The last sequence has flashing lights, not good for epileptics, who scientists say should smoke more weed.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nUjan Story<\/strong>\nArmenia\n70 mins\nShahram Badakhshan Mehr<\/p>\nIt starts with a quote from Job (\u201cI\u2019ve heard of Thee by ear. Now I\u2019ve seen Thee.\u201d) so you know it\u2019s about the trials of life in Armenian Kalava, but the dreamy realism is delicious. Yes, life is tough but also joyous. So what? If that\u2019s not stoned, what is? The movie\u2019s textures are pleasurable. A grape-festooned courtyard; fruit ripening on trees as old people tend to them; bare feet squishing grapes to make wine; a highway through empty brown fields where the very earth seems charred by war; a child in pink with dark intense eyes. Families are separated by migration to safety and security in Fortress Europe and life is kind of sad but, always, beautiful, and the neon crucifix atop the hill that has gone out is restored to light. A rare film that takes you almost physically there on a magic carpet.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nAmerican Pot Story: Oaksterdam<\/strong>\nUS\n96 mins\nRavit Markus, Dan Katzir<\/p>\nA serious film about seriously brave and lovely people, this important documentary on the history of the legalisation campaign in the US is the untold story of the \u2018Mayor of Oaksterdam\u2019 Richard Lee, a ganja activist in a wheelchair (\u201cBusiness is my activism\u201d; \u201cBreak the law to change the law\u201d; \u201cControl and tax pot\u201d), as told by his sidekick and successor Dale Sky Jones. The dark climax is reached when no cops are available to stop a mass shooting at a Christian university nearby because they are all busy staging an overkill FBI raid on Richard\u2019s Oaksterdam University pot business school. Dale: \u201cThis is about decriminalisation as much as legalisation. People are arrested, their lives destroyed.\u201d The raid and the expensive lobbying campaign to end prohibition ruin them, but by putting the ganja debate into mainstream politics, \u201cWe can honestly say we\u2019ve left the world better than we found it.\u201d Indeed you have, and thank you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n3 Short programs<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. No close-ups until he eats a watermelon, its sweet juice salty with his tears.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\u0e1a\u0e23\u0e23\u0e22\u0e32\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e07\u0e32\u0e19\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e23\u0e32\u0e07\u0e27\u0e31\u0e25\u0e1b\u0e35\u0e41\u0e23\u0e01 :<\/div>\nhttps:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/…\/call-for-entries-amazing…\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFor more information<\/div>\nplease contact:<\/div>\n096 112 2601<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFacebook : Cinema Oasis<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazing Stoner Movie Fest 2023 is back!! 9 \u2013 12 November 2023 at Cinema Oasis in Bangkok, Thailand __________________________________ Amazing Stoner Movie Manifesto What is a stoner movie?This was the Golden Ganja question as we watched the exotic entries one after another. 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![\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nCannabis Medicinal<\/strong>\nArgentina\n61 mins\nSara Silvia Kochen, Emiliano Serra<\/p>\nThe beautiful pioneers of cannabis research in this solidly enlightening documentary inspire and console us, and it\u2019s not just the autism and epilepsy mums who\u2019ve done so much to end prohibition. At its heart is a university research chemist whose brief \u2018The Scientific Basis of Cannabis\u2019 is covered by special governmental permits. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the chemical difference in our brain between when we\u2019re happy and unhappy,\u201d he says, explaining the compound he\u2019s named Anandamide from Sanskrit Anandamida, \u201cThe mechanism of cannabis is a great mystery.\u201d Other memorable lines: \u201cIt\u2019s not a gateway drug but a gateway to exit addiction. That\u2019s part of the demonising\u201d (a hospital doctor); \u201cIt was the first time he found something funny\u201d (mum whose autistic son laughed for the first time in his life); \u201cYou can\u2019t be healed if you aren\u2019t stoned!\u201d (old hippie grower fed up with criticism of side effects of cannabis).\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nIt\u2019s A Wrap<\/strong>\nIsrael\n56 mins\nAmit Miller, Miri Urman<\/p>\nHaya invites family and friends to a farewell party. Farewell to what? \u201cTo life,\u201d she says cheerfully. She has terminal cancer and wants to die on her own terms, with dignity. It\u2019s getting hard to swallow so she\u2019s stopped taking food and medicine, though she does smoke enormous joints (\u201cCannabis\u2026Good\u201d) and still paints her lips red. Her determined stoicism is both wise and natural, and reasonable. \u201cI\u2019m afraid of pain and nothing else,\u201d she says firmly. She would die as cheerfully and logically as she has lived, as we soon learn from her secrets. There is no fear of death to poison love, and it is miraculous to watch this indescribably lovely grandmother musician take leave of this world by making peace with all in it. An extraordinary documentary and the opposite of depressing.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nBlood Rain<\/strong>\nThailand\n73 mins\nAchitaphon Piansukprasert<\/p>\nIf true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in \u2018Blood Rain\u2019, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose \u2018Gagee: The Lady\u2019s Tale\u2019. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nPain of Silence<\/strong>\nThailand,\n77 mins,\nChristopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong<\/p>\nThree years gone by, no gig. The pandemic lockdown has plunged traditional performance arts into a coma, with many accomplished Isan musicians forced to take up construction jobs. The star is Boonma, a blind Isan phin master who taught himself from hearing others play. He has to be carefully led to a red plastic chair on a makeshift stage, but then plays like an angel from heaven. We see him perform seated on a junk cart pushed by his not young wife; the COVID mask has scrounged up his face, giving him a sour and bewildered look as he fists up the coins at an intersection. We see a mermaid puppet swim in air among ancient ruins. But all interviewees are wonderful, the real thing, in this beautifully-shot labour of true love that dives headfirst into the meaning and purpose of art. Where is the Ministry of Culture in all this? In a priceless scene an official at the Cultural Promotion Dept details his massive workload: cultural promotion of course, royal ceremonies as well, and \u201ccontemporary art is important too\u2014we can\u2019t just stay the same.\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nTake Your Space<\/strong>\nCzech\n76 mins\nKarol\u00edna Alvarez<\/p>\nThere\u2019s not one bad frame in this beautifully filmed and edited art documentary, a headlong dive into Mexican graffiti and street art. Initially a Californian import, it has grown hybrid Olmec roots, in a country so welcoming to wall painters who fit neatly into its Mexican School of Muralism. The soundtrack is anti-colonial rap: \u201cRemember, Gringo, you stole our land! You call me illegal but you took everything!\u201d Where \u201cclouds of money bring showers of bullets\u201d, rapping, skateboarding, graffiti and street art are not just cool but an authentic act of defiance. How much richer the world is that these people have chosen to paint walls instead of blowing them up.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nWinter In Pluto<\/strong>\nUS\n56 mins\nRiley Teahan<\/p>\nWe dive into the navel of the iconic torso of the Venus de Milo, and find Disco Persephone\/Aphrodite alone in her throbbing pink 1970\u2019s prison cell\/boudoir, gazing out of her round window and sometimes her pink TV, at lovers on earth. This is a contemporary dance movie, Bollywood on shroom with bodies of every shape and colour. The dancing is awesome and inspired. The last sequence has flashing lights, not good for epileptics, who scientists say should smoke more weed.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nUjan Story<\/strong>\nArmenia\n70 mins\nShahram Badakhshan Mehr<\/p>\nIt starts with a quote from Job (\u201cI\u2019ve heard of Thee by ear. Now I\u2019ve seen Thee.\u201d) so you know it\u2019s about the trials of life in Armenian Kalava, but the dreamy realism is delicious. Yes, life is tough but also joyous. So what? If that\u2019s not stoned, what is? The movie\u2019s textures are pleasurable. A grape-festooned courtyard; fruit ripening on trees as old people tend to them; bare feet squishing grapes to make wine; a highway through empty brown fields where the very earth seems charred by war; a child in pink with dark intense eyes. Families are separated by migration to safety and security in Fortress Europe and life is kind of sad but, always, beautiful, and the neon crucifix atop the hill that has gone out is restored to light. A rare film that takes you almost physically there on a magic carpet.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nAmerican Pot Story: Oaksterdam<\/strong>\nUS\n96 mins\nRavit Markus, Dan Katzir<\/p>\nA serious film about seriously brave and lovely people, this important documentary on the history of the legalisation campaign in the US is the untold story of the \u2018Mayor of Oaksterdam\u2019 Richard Lee, a ganja activist in a wheelchair (\u201cBusiness is my activism\u201d; \u201cBreak the law to change the law\u201d; \u201cControl and tax pot\u201d), as told by his sidekick and successor Dale Sky Jones. The dark climax is reached when no cops are available to stop a mass shooting at a Christian university nearby because they are all busy staging an overkill FBI raid on Richard\u2019s Oaksterdam University pot business school. Dale: \u201cThis is about decriminalisation as much as legalisation. People are arrested, their lives destroyed.\u201d The raid and the expensive lobbying campaign to end prohibition ruin them, but by putting the ganja debate into mainstream politics, \u201cWe can honestly say we\u2019ve left the world better than we found it.\u201d Indeed you have, and thank you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n3 Short programs<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. No close-ups until he eats a watermelon, its sweet juice salty with his tears.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\u0e1a\u0e23\u0e23\u0e22\u0e32\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e07\u0e32\u0e19\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e23\u0e32\u0e07\u0e27\u0e31\u0e25\u0e1b\u0e35\u0e41\u0e23\u0e01 :<\/div>\nhttps:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/…\/call-for-entries-amazing…\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFor more information<\/div>\nplease contact:<\/div>\n096 112 2601<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFacebook : Cinema Oasis<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazing Stoner Movie Fest 2023 is back!! 9 \u2013 12 November 2023 at Cinema Oasis in Bangkok, Thailand __________________________________ Amazing Stoner Movie Manifesto What is a stoner movie?This was the Golden Ganja question as we watched the exotic entries one after another. 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![\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nCannabis Medicinal<\/strong>\nArgentina\n61 mins\nSara Silvia Kochen, Emiliano Serra<\/p>\nThe beautiful pioneers of cannabis research in this solidly enlightening documentary inspire and console us, and it\u2019s not just the autism and epilepsy mums who\u2019ve done so much to end prohibition. At its heart is a university research chemist whose brief \u2018The Scientific Basis of Cannabis\u2019 is covered by special governmental permits. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the chemical difference in our brain between when we\u2019re happy and unhappy,\u201d he says, explaining the compound he\u2019s named Anandamide from Sanskrit Anandamida, \u201cThe mechanism of cannabis is a great mystery.\u201d Other memorable lines: \u201cIt\u2019s not a gateway drug but a gateway to exit addiction. That\u2019s part of the demonising\u201d (a hospital doctor); \u201cIt was the first time he found something funny\u201d (mum whose autistic son laughed for the first time in his life); \u201cYou can\u2019t be healed if you aren\u2019t stoned!\u201d (old hippie grower fed up with criticism of side effects of cannabis).\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nIt\u2019s A Wrap<\/strong>\nIsrael\n56 mins\nAmit Miller, Miri Urman<\/p>\nHaya invites family and friends to a farewell party. Farewell to what? \u201cTo life,\u201d she says cheerfully. She has terminal cancer and wants to die on her own terms, with dignity. It\u2019s getting hard to swallow so she\u2019s stopped taking food and medicine, though she does smoke enormous joints (\u201cCannabis\u2026Good\u201d) and still paints her lips red. Her determined stoicism is both wise and natural, and reasonable. \u201cI\u2019m afraid of pain and nothing else,\u201d she says firmly. She would die as cheerfully and logically as she has lived, as we soon learn from her secrets. There is no fear of death to poison love, and it is miraculous to watch this indescribably lovely grandmother musician take leave of this world by making peace with all in it. An extraordinary documentary and the opposite of depressing.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nBlood Rain<\/strong>\nThailand\n73 mins\nAchitaphon Piansukprasert<\/p>\nIf true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in \u2018Blood Rain\u2019, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose \u2018Gagee: The Lady\u2019s Tale\u2019. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nPain of Silence<\/strong>\nThailand,\n77 mins,\nChristopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong<\/p>\nThree years gone by, no gig. The pandemic lockdown has plunged traditional performance arts into a coma, with many accomplished Isan musicians forced to take up construction jobs. The star is Boonma, a blind Isan phin master who taught himself from hearing others play. He has to be carefully led to a red plastic chair on a makeshift stage, but then plays like an angel from heaven. We see him perform seated on a junk cart pushed by his not young wife; the COVID mask has scrounged up his face, giving him a sour and bewildered look as he fists up the coins at an intersection. We see a mermaid puppet swim in air among ancient ruins. But all interviewees are wonderful, the real thing, in this beautifully-shot labour of true love that dives headfirst into the meaning and purpose of art. Where is the Ministry of Culture in all this? In a priceless scene an official at the Cultural Promotion Dept details his massive workload: cultural promotion of course, royal ceremonies as well, and \u201ccontemporary art is important too\u2014we can\u2019t just stay the same.\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nTake Your Space<\/strong>\nCzech\n76 mins\nKarol\u00edna Alvarez<\/p>\nThere\u2019s not one bad frame in this beautifully filmed and edited art documentary, a headlong dive into Mexican graffiti and street art. Initially a Californian import, it has grown hybrid Olmec roots, in a country so welcoming to wall painters who fit neatly into its Mexican School of Muralism. The soundtrack is anti-colonial rap: \u201cRemember, Gringo, you stole our land! You call me illegal but you took everything!\u201d Where \u201cclouds of money bring showers of bullets\u201d, rapping, skateboarding, graffiti and street art are not just cool but an authentic act of defiance. How much richer the world is that these people have chosen to paint walls instead of blowing them up.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nWinter In Pluto<\/strong>\nUS\n56 mins\nRiley Teahan<\/p>\nWe dive into the navel of the iconic torso of the Venus de Milo, and find Disco Persephone\/Aphrodite alone in her throbbing pink 1970\u2019s prison cell\/boudoir, gazing out of her round window and sometimes her pink TV, at lovers on earth. This is a contemporary dance movie, Bollywood on shroom with bodies of every shape and colour. The dancing is awesome and inspired. The last sequence has flashing lights, not good for epileptics, who scientists say should smoke more weed.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nUjan Story<\/strong>\nArmenia\n70 mins\nShahram Badakhshan Mehr<\/p>\nIt starts with a quote from Job (\u201cI\u2019ve heard of Thee by ear. Now I\u2019ve seen Thee.\u201d) so you know it\u2019s about the trials of life in Armenian Kalava, but the dreamy realism is delicious. Yes, life is tough but also joyous. So what? If that\u2019s not stoned, what is? The movie\u2019s textures are pleasurable. A grape-festooned courtyard; fruit ripening on trees as old people tend to them; bare feet squishing grapes to make wine; a highway through empty brown fields where the very earth seems charred by war; a child in pink with dark intense eyes. Families are separated by migration to safety and security in Fortress Europe and life is kind of sad but, always, beautiful, and the neon crucifix atop the hill that has gone out is restored to light. A rare film that takes you almost physically there on a magic carpet.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nAmerican Pot Story: Oaksterdam<\/strong>\nUS\n96 mins\nRavit Markus, Dan Katzir<\/p>\nA serious film about seriously brave and lovely people, this important documentary on the history of the legalisation campaign in the US is the untold story of the \u2018Mayor of Oaksterdam\u2019 Richard Lee, a ganja activist in a wheelchair (\u201cBusiness is my activism\u201d; \u201cBreak the law to change the law\u201d; \u201cControl and tax pot\u201d), as told by his sidekick and successor Dale Sky Jones. The dark climax is reached when no cops are available to stop a mass shooting at a Christian university nearby because they are all busy staging an overkill FBI raid on Richard\u2019s Oaksterdam University pot business school. Dale: \u201cThis is about decriminalisation as much as legalisation. People are arrested, their lives destroyed.\u201d The raid and the expensive lobbying campaign to end prohibition ruin them, but by putting the ganja debate into mainstream politics, \u201cWe can honestly say we\u2019ve left the world better than we found it.\u201d Indeed you have, and thank you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n3 Short programs<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. 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![\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nCannabis Medicinal<\/strong>\nArgentina\n61 mins\nSara Silvia Kochen, Emiliano Serra<\/p>\nThe beautiful pioneers of cannabis research in this solidly enlightening documentary inspire and console us, and it\u2019s not just the autism and epilepsy mums who\u2019ve done so much to end prohibition. At its heart is a university research chemist whose brief \u2018The Scientific Basis of Cannabis\u2019 is covered by special governmental permits. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the chemical difference in our brain between when we\u2019re happy and unhappy,\u201d he says, explaining the compound he\u2019s named Anandamide from Sanskrit Anandamida, \u201cThe mechanism of cannabis is a great mystery.\u201d Other memorable lines: \u201cIt\u2019s not a gateway drug but a gateway to exit addiction. That\u2019s part of the demonising\u201d (a hospital doctor); \u201cIt was the first time he found something funny\u201d (mum whose autistic son laughed for the first time in his life); \u201cYou can\u2019t be healed if you aren\u2019t stoned!\u201d (old hippie grower fed up with criticism of side effects of cannabis).\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nIt\u2019s A Wrap<\/strong>\nIsrael\n56 mins\nAmit Miller, Miri Urman<\/p>\nHaya invites family and friends to a farewell party. Farewell to what? \u201cTo life,\u201d she says cheerfully. She has terminal cancer and wants to die on her own terms, with dignity. It\u2019s getting hard to swallow so she\u2019s stopped taking food and medicine, though she does smoke enormous joints (\u201cCannabis\u2026Good\u201d) and still paints her lips red. Her determined stoicism is both wise and natural, and reasonable. \u201cI\u2019m afraid of pain and nothing else,\u201d she says firmly. She would die as cheerfully and logically as she has lived, as we soon learn from her secrets. There is no fear of death to poison love, and it is miraculous to watch this indescribably lovely grandmother musician take leave of this world by making peace with all in it. An extraordinary documentary and the opposite of depressing.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nBlood Rain<\/strong>\nThailand\n73 mins\nAchitaphon Piansukprasert<\/p>\nIf true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in \u2018Blood Rain\u2019, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose \u2018Gagee: The Lady\u2019s Tale\u2019. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nPain of Silence<\/strong>\nThailand,\n77 mins,\nChristopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong<\/p>\nThree years gone by, no gig. The pandemic lockdown has plunged traditional performance arts into a coma, with many accomplished Isan musicians forced to take up construction jobs. The star is Boonma, a blind Isan phin master who taught himself from hearing others play. He has to be carefully led to a red plastic chair on a makeshift stage, but then plays like an angel from heaven. We see him perform seated on a junk cart pushed by his not young wife; the COVID mask has scrounged up his face, giving him a sour and bewildered look as he fists up the coins at an intersection. We see a mermaid puppet swim in air among ancient ruins. But all interviewees are wonderful, the real thing, in this beautifully-shot labour of true love that dives headfirst into the meaning and purpose of art. Where is the Ministry of Culture in all this? In a priceless scene an official at the Cultural Promotion Dept details his massive workload: cultural promotion of course, royal ceremonies as well, and \u201ccontemporary art is important too\u2014we can\u2019t just stay the same.\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nTake Your Space<\/strong>\nCzech\n76 mins\nKarol\u00edna Alvarez<\/p>\nThere\u2019s not one bad frame in this beautifully filmed and edited art documentary, a headlong dive into Mexican graffiti and street art. Initially a Californian import, it has grown hybrid Olmec roots, in a country so welcoming to wall painters who fit neatly into its Mexican School of Muralism. The soundtrack is anti-colonial rap: \u201cRemember, Gringo, you stole our land! You call me illegal but you took everything!\u201d Where \u201cclouds of money bring showers of bullets\u201d, rapping, skateboarding, graffiti and street art are not just cool but an authentic act of defiance. How much richer the world is that these people have chosen to paint walls instead of blowing them up.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nWinter In Pluto<\/strong>\nUS\n56 mins\nRiley Teahan<\/p>\nWe dive into the navel of the iconic torso of the Venus de Milo, and find Disco Persephone\/Aphrodite alone in her throbbing pink 1970\u2019s prison cell\/boudoir, gazing out of her round window and sometimes her pink TV, at lovers on earth. This is a contemporary dance movie, Bollywood on shroom with bodies of every shape and colour. The dancing is awesome and inspired. The last sequence has flashing lights, not good for epileptics, who scientists say should smoke more weed.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nUjan Story<\/strong>\nArmenia\n70 mins\nShahram Badakhshan Mehr<\/p>\nIt starts with a quote from Job (\u201cI\u2019ve heard of Thee by ear. Now I\u2019ve seen Thee.\u201d) so you know it\u2019s about the trials of life in Armenian Kalava, but the dreamy realism is delicious. Yes, life is tough but also joyous. So what? If that\u2019s not stoned, what is? The movie\u2019s textures are pleasurable. A grape-festooned courtyard; fruit ripening on trees as old people tend to them; bare feet squishing grapes to make wine; a highway through empty brown fields where the very earth seems charred by war; a child in pink with dark intense eyes. Families are separated by migration to safety and security in Fortress Europe and life is kind of sad but, always, beautiful, and the neon crucifix atop the hill that has gone out is restored to light. A rare film that takes you almost physically there on a magic carpet.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nAmerican Pot Story: Oaksterdam<\/strong>\nUS\n96 mins\nRavit Markus, Dan Katzir<\/p>\nA serious film about seriously brave and lovely people, this important documentary on the history of the legalisation campaign in the US is the untold story of the \u2018Mayor of Oaksterdam\u2019 Richard Lee, a ganja activist in a wheelchair (\u201cBusiness is my activism\u201d; \u201cBreak the law to change the law\u201d; \u201cControl and tax pot\u201d), as told by his sidekick and successor Dale Sky Jones. The dark climax is reached when no cops are available to stop a mass shooting at a Christian university nearby because they are all busy staging an overkill FBI raid on Richard\u2019s Oaksterdam University pot business school. Dale: \u201cThis is about decriminalisation as much as legalisation. People are arrested, their lives destroyed.\u201d The raid and the expensive lobbying campaign to end prohibition ruin them, but by putting the ganja debate into mainstream politics, \u201cWe can honestly say we\u2019ve left the world better than we found it.\u201d Indeed you have, and thank you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n3 Short programs<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. 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![\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nCannabis Medicinal<\/strong>\nArgentina\n61 mins\nSara Silvia Kochen, Emiliano Serra<\/p>\nThe beautiful pioneers of cannabis research in this solidly enlightening documentary inspire and console us, and it\u2019s not just the autism and epilepsy mums who\u2019ve done so much to end prohibition. At its heart is a university research chemist whose brief \u2018The Scientific Basis of Cannabis\u2019 is covered by special governmental permits. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the chemical difference in our brain between when we\u2019re happy and unhappy,\u201d he says, explaining the compound he\u2019s named Anandamide from Sanskrit Anandamida, \u201cThe mechanism of cannabis is a great mystery.\u201d Other memorable lines: \u201cIt\u2019s not a gateway drug but a gateway to exit addiction. That\u2019s part of the demonising\u201d (a hospital doctor); \u201cIt was the first time he found something funny\u201d (mum whose autistic son laughed for the first time in his life); \u201cYou can\u2019t be healed if you aren\u2019t stoned!\u201d (old hippie grower fed up with criticism of side effects of cannabis).\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nIt\u2019s A Wrap<\/strong>\nIsrael\n56 mins\nAmit Miller, Miri Urman<\/p>\nHaya invites family and friends to a farewell party. Farewell to what? \u201cTo life,\u201d she says cheerfully. She has terminal cancer and wants to die on her own terms, with dignity. It\u2019s getting hard to swallow so she\u2019s stopped taking food and medicine, though she does smoke enormous joints (\u201cCannabis\u2026Good\u201d) and still paints her lips red. Her determined stoicism is both wise and natural, and reasonable. \u201cI\u2019m afraid of pain and nothing else,\u201d she says firmly. She would die as cheerfully and logically as she has lived, as we soon learn from her secrets. There is no fear of death to poison love, and it is miraculous to watch this indescribably lovely grandmother musician take leave of this world by making peace with all in it. An extraordinary documentary and the opposite of depressing.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nBlood Rain<\/strong>\nThailand\n73 mins\nAchitaphon Piansukprasert<\/p>\nIf true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in \u2018Blood Rain\u2019, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose \u2018Gagee: The Lady\u2019s Tale\u2019. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nPain of Silence<\/strong>\nThailand,\n77 mins,\nChristopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong<\/p>\nThree years gone by, no gig. The pandemic lockdown has plunged traditional performance arts into a coma, with many accomplished Isan musicians forced to take up construction jobs. The star is Boonma, a blind Isan phin master who taught himself from hearing others play. He has to be carefully led to a red plastic chair on a makeshift stage, but then plays like an angel from heaven. We see him perform seated on a junk cart pushed by his not young wife; the COVID mask has scrounged up his face, giving him a sour and bewildered look as he fists up the coins at an intersection. We see a mermaid puppet swim in air among ancient ruins. But all interviewees are wonderful, the real thing, in this beautifully-shot labour of true love that dives headfirst into the meaning and purpose of art. Where is the Ministry of Culture in all this? In a priceless scene an official at the Cultural Promotion Dept details his massive workload: cultural promotion of course, royal ceremonies as well, and \u201ccontemporary art is important too\u2014we can\u2019t just stay the same.\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nTake Your Space<\/strong>\nCzech\n76 mins\nKarol\u00edna Alvarez<\/p>\nThere\u2019s not one bad frame in this beautifully filmed and edited art documentary, a headlong dive into Mexican graffiti and street art. Initially a Californian import, it has grown hybrid Olmec roots, in a country so welcoming to wall painters who fit neatly into its Mexican School of Muralism. The soundtrack is anti-colonial rap: \u201cRemember, Gringo, you stole our land! You call me illegal but you took everything!\u201d Where \u201cclouds of money bring showers of bullets\u201d, rapping, skateboarding, graffiti and street art are not just cool but an authentic act of defiance. How much richer the world is that these people have chosen to paint walls instead of blowing them up.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nWinter In Pluto<\/strong>\nUS\n56 mins\nRiley Teahan<\/p>\nWe dive into the navel of the iconic torso of the Venus de Milo, and find Disco Persephone\/Aphrodite alone in her throbbing pink 1970\u2019s prison cell\/boudoir, gazing out of her round window and sometimes her pink TV, at lovers on earth. This is a contemporary dance movie, Bollywood on shroom with bodies of every shape and colour. The dancing is awesome and inspired. The last sequence has flashing lights, not good for epileptics, who scientists say should smoke more weed.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nUjan Story<\/strong>\nArmenia\n70 mins\nShahram Badakhshan Mehr<\/p>\nIt starts with a quote from Job (\u201cI\u2019ve heard of Thee by ear. Now I\u2019ve seen Thee.\u201d) so you know it\u2019s about the trials of life in Armenian Kalava, but the dreamy realism is delicious. Yes, life is tough but also joyous. So what? If that\u2019s not stoned, what is? The movie\u2019s textures are pleasurable. A grape-festooned courtyard; fruit ripening on trees as old people tend to them; bare feet squishing grapes to make wine; a highway through empty brown fields where the very earth seems charred by war; a child in pink with dark intense eyes. Families are separated by migration to safety and security in Fortress Europe and life is kind of sad but, always, beautiful, and the neon crucifix atop the hill that has gone out is restored to light. A rare film that takes you almost physically there on a magic carpet.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nAmerican Pot Story: Oaksterdam<\/strong>\nUS\n96 mins\nRavit Markus, Dan Katzir<\/p>\nA serious film about seriously brave and lovely people, this important documentary on the history of the legalisation campaign in the US is the untold story of the \u2018Mayor of Oaksterdam\u2019 Richard Lee, a ganja activist in a wheelchair (\u201cBusiness is my activism\u201d; \u201cBreak the law to change the law\u201d; \u201cControl and tax pot\u201d), as told by his sidekick and successor Dale Sky Jones. The dark climax is reached when no cops are available to stop a mass shooting at a Christian university nearby because they are all busy staging an overkill FBI raid on Richard\u2019s Oaksterdam University pot business school. Dale: \u201cThis is about decriminalisation as much as legalisation. People are arrested, their lives destroyed.\u201d The raid and the expensive lobbying campaign to end prohibition ruin them, but by putting the ganja debate into mainstream politics, \u201cWe can honestly say we\u2019ve left the world better than we found it.\u201d Indeed you have, and thank you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n3 Short programs<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. 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![\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nCannabis Medicinal<\/strong>\nArgentina\n61 mins\nSara Silvia Kochen, Emiliano Serra<\/p>\nThe beautiful pioneers of cannabis research in this solidly enlightening documentary inspire and console us, and it\u2019s not just the autism and epilepsy mums who\u2019ve done so much to end prohibition. At its heart is a university research chemist whose brief \u2018The Scientific Basis of Cannabis\u2019 is covered by special governmental permits. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the chemical difference in our brain between when we\u2019re happy and unhappy,\u201d he says, explaining the compound he\u2019s named Anandamide from Sanskrit Anandamida, \u201cThe mechanism of cannabis is a great mystery.\u201d Other memorable lines: \u201cIt\u2019s not a gateway drug but a gateway to exit addiction. That\u2019s part of the demonising\u201d (a hospital doctor); \u201cIt was the first time he found something funny\u201d (mum whose autistic son laughed for the first time in his life); \u201cYou can\u2019t be healed if you aren\u2019t stoned!\u201d (old hippie grower fed up with criticism of side effects of cannabis).\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nIt\u2019s A Wrap<\/strong>\nIsrael\n56 mins\nAmit Miller, Miri Urman<\/p>\nHaya invites family and friends to a farewell party. Farewell to what? \u201cTo life,\u201d she says cheerfully. She has terminal cancer and wants to die on her own terms, with dignity. It\u2019s getting hard to swallow so she\u2019s stopped taking food and medicine, though she does smoke enormous joints (\u201cCannabis\u2026Good\u201d) and still paints her lips red. Her determined stoicism is both wise and natural, and reasonable. \u201cI\u2019m afraid of pain and nothing else,\u201d she says firmly. She would die as cheerfully and logically as she has lived, as we soon learn from her secrets. There is no fear of death to poison love, and it is miraculous to watch this indescribably lovely grandmother musician take leave of this world by making peace with all in it. An extraordinary documentary and the opposite of depressing.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nBlood Rain<\/strong>\nThailand\n73 mins\nAchitaphon Piansukprasert<\/p>\nIf true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in \u2018Blood Rain\u2019, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose \u2018Gagee: The Lady\u2019s Tale\u2019. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nPain of Silence<\/strong>\nThailand,\n77 mins,\nChristopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong<\/p>\nThree years gone by, no gig. The pandemic lockdown has plunged traditional performance arts into a coma, with many accomplished Isan musicians forced to take up construction jobs. The star is Boonma, a blind Isan phin master who taught himself from hearing others play. He has to be carefully led to a red plastic chair on a makeshift stage, but then plays like an angel from heaven. We see him perform seated on a junk cart pushed by his not young wife; the COVID mask has scrounged up his face, giving him a sour and bewildered look as he fists up the coins at an intersection. We see a mermaid puppet swim in air among ancient ruins. But all interviewees are wonderful, the real thing, in this beautifully-shot labour of true love that dives headfirst into the meaning and purpose of art. Where is the Ministry of Culture in all this? In a priceless scene an official at the Cultural Promotion Dept details his massive workload: cultural promotion of course, royal ceremonies as well, and \u201ccontemporary art is important too\u2014we can\u2019t just stay the same.\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nTake Your Space<\/strong>\nCzech\n76 mins\nKarol\u00edna Alvarez<\/p>\nThere\u2019s not one bad frame in this beautifully filmed and edited art documentary, a headlong dive into Mexican graffiti and street art. Initially a Californian import, it has grown hybrid Olmec roots, in a country so welcoming to wall painters who fit neatly into its Mexican School of Muralism. The soundtrack is anti-colonial rap: \u201cRemember, Gringo, you stole our land! You call me illegal but you took everything!\u201d Where \u201cclouds of money bring showers of bullets\u201d, rapping, skateboarding, graffiti and street art are not just cool but an authentic act of defiance. How much richer the world is that these people have chosen to paint walls instead of blowing them up.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nWinter In Pluto<\/strong>\nUS\n56 mins\nRiley Teahan<\/p>\nWe dive into the navel of the iconic torso of the Venus de Milo, and find Disco Persephone\/Aphrodite alone in her throbbing pink 1970\u2019s prison cell\/boudoir, gazing out of her round window and sometimes her pink TV, at lovers on earth. This is a contemporary dance movie, Bollywood on shroom with bodies of every shape and colour. The dancing is awesome and inspired. The last sequence has flashing lights, not good for epileptics, who scientists say should smoke more weed.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nUjan Story<\/strong>\nArmenia\n70 mins\nShahram Badakhshan Mehr<\/p>\nIt starts with a quote from Job (\u201cI\u2019ve heard of Thee by ear. Now I\u2019ve seen Thee.\u201d) so you know it\u2019s about the trials of life in Armenian Kalava, but the dreamy realism is delicious. Yes, life is tough but also joyous. So what? If that\u2019s not stoned, what is? The movie\u2019s textures are pleasurable. A grape-festooned courtyard; fruit ripening on trees as old people tend to them; bare feet squishing grapes to make wine; a highway through empty brown fields where the very earth seems charred by war; a child in pink with dark intense eyes. Families are separated by migration to safety and security in Fortress Europe and life is kind of sad but, always, beautiful, and the neon crucifix atop the hill that has gone out is restored to light. A rare film that takes you almost physically there on a magic carpet.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nAmerican Pot Story: Oaksterdam<\/strong>\nUS\n96 mins\nRavit Markus, Dan Katzir<\/p>\nA serious film about seriously brave and lovely people, this important documentary on the history of the legalisation campaign in the US is the untold story of the \u2018Mayor of Oaksterdam\u2019 Richard Lee, a ganja activist in a wheelchair (\u201cBusiness is my activism\u201d; \u201cBreak the law to change the law\u201d; \u201cControl and tax pot\u201d), as told by his sidekick and successor Dale Sky Jones. The dark climax is reached when no cops are available to stop a mass shooting at a Christian university nearby because they are all busy staging an overkill FBI raid on Richard\u2019s Oaksterdam University pot business school. Dale: \u201cThis is about decriminalisation as much as legalisation. People are arrested, their lives destroyed.\u201d The raid and the expensive lobbying campaign to end prohibition ruin them, but by putting the ganja debate into mainstream politics, \u201cWe can honestly say we\u2019ve left the world better than we found it.\u201d Indeed you have, and thank you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n3 Short programs<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. No close-ups until he eats a watermelon, its sweet juice salty with his tears.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\u0e1a\u0e23\u0e23\u0e22\u0e32\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e07\u0e32\u0e19\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e23\u0e32\u0e07\u0e27\u0e31\u0e25\u0e1b\u0e35\u0e41\u0e23\u0e01 :<\/div>\nhttps:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/…\/call-for-entries-amazing…\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFor more information<\/div>\nplease contact:<\/div>\n096 112 2601<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFacebook : Cinema Oasis<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazing Stoner Movie Fest 2023 is back!! 9 \u2013 12 November 2023 at Cinema Oasis in Bangkok, Thailand __________________________________ Amazing Stoner Movie Manifesto What is a stoner movie?This was the Golden Ganja question as we watched the exotic entries one after another. 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![\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nCannabis Medicinal<\/strong>\nArgentina\n61 mins\nSara Silvia Kochen, Emiliano Serra<\/p>\nThe beautiful pioneers of cannabis research in this solidly enlightening documentary inspire and console us, and it\u2019s not just the autism and epilepsy mums who\u2019ve done so much to end prohibition. At its heart is a university research chemist whose brief \u2018The Scientific Basis of Cannabis\u2019 is covered by special governmental permits. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the chemical difference in our brain between when we\u2019re happy and unhappy,\u201d he says, explaining the compound he\u2019s named Anandamide from Sanskrit Anandamida, \u201cThe mechanism of cannabis is a great mystery.\u201d Other memorable lines: \u201cIt\u2019s not a gateway drug but a gateway to exit addiction. That\u2019s part of the demonising\u201d (a hospital doctor); \u201cIt was the first time he found something funny\u201d (mum whose autistic son laughed for the first time in his life); \u201cYou can\u2019t be healed if you aren\u2019t stoned!\u201d (old hippie grower fed up with criticism of side effects of cannabis).\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nIt\u2019s A Wrap<\/strong>\nIsrael\n56 mins\nAmit Miller, Miri Urman<\/p>\nHaya invites family and friends to a farewell party. Farewell to what? \u201cTo life,\u201d she says cheerfully. She has terminal cancer and wants to die on her own terms, with dignity. It\u2019s getting hard to swallow so she\u2019s stopped taking food and medicine, though she does smoke enormous joints (\u201cCannabis\u2026Good\u201d) and still paints her lips red. Her determined stoicism is both wise and natural, and reasonable. \u201cI\u2019m afraid of pain and nothing else,\u201d she says firmly. She would die as cheerfully and logically as she has lived, as we soon learn from her secrets. There is no fear of death to poison love, and it is miraculous to watch this indescribably lovely grandmother musician take leave of this world by making peace with all in it. An extraordinary documentary and the opposite of depressing.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nBlood Rain<\/strong>\nThailand\n73 mins\nAchitaphon Piansukprasert<\/p>\nIf true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in \u2018Blood Rain\u2019, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose \u2018Gagee: The Lady\u2019s Tale\u2019. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nPain of Silence<\/strong>\nThailand,\n77 mins,\nChristopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong<\/p>\nThree years gone by, no gig. The pandemic lockdown has plunged traditional performance arts into a coma, with many accomplished Isan musicians forced to take up construction jobs. The star is Boonma, a blind Isan phin master who taught himself from hearing others play. He has to be carefully led to a red plastic chair on a makeshift stage, but then plays like an angel from heaven. We see him perform seated on a junk cart pushed by his not young wife; the COVID mask has scrounged up his face, giving him a sour and bewildered look as he fists up the coins at an intersection. We see a mermaid puppet swim in air among ancient ruins. But all interviewees are wonderful, the real thing, in this beautifully-shot labour of true love that dives headfirst into the meaning and purpose of art. Where is the Ministry of Culture in all this? In a priceless scene an official at the Cultural Promotion Dept details his massive workload: cultural promotion of course, royal ceremonies as well, and \u201ccontemporary art is important too\u2014we can\u2019t just stay the same.\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nTake Your Space<\/strong>\nCzech\n76 mins\nKarol\u00edna Alvarez<\/p>\nThere\u2019s not one bad frame in this beautifully filmed and edited art documentary, a headlong dive into Mexican graffiti and street art. Initially a Californian import, it has grown hybrid Olmec roots, in a country so welcoming to wall painters who fit neatly into its Mexican School of Muralism. The soundtrack is anti-colonial rap: \u201cRemember, Gringo, you stole our land! You call me illegal but you took everything!\u201d Where \u201cclouds of money bring showers of bullets\u201d, rapping, skateboarding, graffiti and street art are not just cool but an authentic act of defiance. How much richer the world is that these people have chosen to paint walls instead of blowing them up.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nWinter In Pluto<\/strong>\nUS\n56 mins\nRiley Teahan<\/p>\nWe dive into the navel of the iconic torso of the Venus de Milo, and find Disco Persephone\/Aphrodite alone in her throbbing pink 1970\u2019s prison cell\/boudoir, gazing out of her round window and sometimes her pink TV, at lovers on earth. This is a contemporary dance movie, Bollywood on shroom with bodies of every shape and colour. The dancing is awesome and inspired. The last sequence has flashing lights, not good for epileptics, who scientists say should smoke more weed.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nUjan Story<\/strong>\nArmenia\n70 mins\nShahram Badakhshan Mehr<\/p>\nIt starts with a quote from Job (\u201cI\u2019ve heard of Thee by ear. Now I\u2019ve seen Thee.\u201d) so you know it\u2019s about the trials of life in Armenian Kalava, but the dreamy realism is delicious. Yes, life is tough but also joyous. So what? If that\u2019s not stoned, what is? The movie\u2019s textures are pleasurable. A grape-festooned courtyard; fruit ripening on trees as old people tend to them; bare feet squishing grapes to make wine; a highway through empty brown fields where the very earth seems charred by war; a child in pink with dark intense eyes. Families are separated by migration to safety and security in Fortress Europe and life is kind of sad but, always, beautiful, and the neon crucifix atop the hill that has gone out is restored to light. A rare film that takes you almost physically there on a magic carpet.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nAmerican Pot Story: Oaksterdam<\/strong>\nUS\n96 mins\nRavit Markus, Dan Katzir<\/p>\nA serious film about seriously brave and lovely people, this important documentary on the history of the legalisation campaign in the US is the untold story of the \u2018Mayor of Oaksterdam\u2019 Richard Lee, a ganja activist in a wheelchair (\u201cBusiness is my activism\u201d; \u201cBreak the law to change the law\u201d; \u201cControl and tax pot\u201d), as told by his sidekick and successor Dale Sky Jones. The dark climax is reached when no cops are available to stop a mass shooting at a Christian university nearby because they are all busy staging an overkill FBI raid on Richard\u2019s Oaksterdam University pot business school. Dale: \u201cThis is about decriminalisation as much as legalisation. People are arrested, their lives destroyed.\u201d The raid and the expensive lobbying campaign to end prohibition ruin them, but by putting the ganja debate into mainstream politics, \u201cWe can honestly say we\u2019ve left the world better than we found it.\u201d Indeed you have, and thank you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n3 Short programs<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. No close-ups until he eats a watermelon, its sweet juice salty with his tears.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\u0e1a\u0e23\u0e23\u0e22\u0e32\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e07\u0e32\u0e19\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e23\u0e32\u0e07\u0e27\u0e31\u0e25\u0e1b\u0e35\u0e41\u0e23\u0e01 :<\/div>\nhttps:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/…\/call-for-entries-amazing…\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFor more information<\/div>\nplease contact:<\/div>\n096 112 2601<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFacebook : Cinema Oasis<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazing Stoner Movie Fest 2023 is back!! 9 \u2013 12 November 2023 at Cinema Oasis in Bangkok, Thailand __________________________________ Amazing Stoner Movie Manifesto What is a stoner movie?This was the Golden Ganja question as we watched the exotic entries one after another. 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![\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nCannabis Medicinal<\/strong>\nArgentina\n61 mins\nSara Silvia Kochen, Emiliano Serra<\/p>\nThe beautiful pioneers of cannabis research in this solidly enlightening documentary inspire and console us, and it\u2019s not just the autism and epilepsy mums who\u2019ve done so much to end prohibition. At its heart is a university research chemist whose brief \u2018The Scientific Basis of Cannabis\u2019 is covered by special governmental permits. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the chemical difference in our brain between when we\u2019re happy and unhappy,\u201d he says, explaining the compound he\u2019s named Anandamide from Sanskrit Anandamida, \u201cThe mechanism of cannabis is a great mystery.\u201d Other memorable lines: \u201cIt\u2019s not a gateway drug but a gateway to exit addiction. That\u2019s part of the demonising\u201d (a hospital doctor); \u201cIt was the first time he found something funny\u201d (mum whose autistic son laughed for the first time in his life); \u201cYou can\u2019t be healed if you aren\u2019t stoned!\u201d (old hippie grower fed up with criticism of side effects of cannabis).\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nIt\u2019s A Wrap<\/strong>\nIsrael\n56 mins\nAmit Miller, Miri Urman<\/p>\nHaya invites family and friends to a farewell party. Farewell to what? \u201cTo life,\u201d she says cheerfully. She has terminal cancer and wants to die on her own terms, with dignity. It\u2019s getting hard to swallow so she\u2019s stopped taking food and medicine, though she does smoke enormous joints (\u201cCannabis\u2026Good\u201d) and still paints her lips red. Her determined stoicism is both wise and natural, and reasonable. \u201cI\u2019m afraid of pain and nothing else,\u201d she says firmly. She would die as cheerfully and logically as she has lived, as we soon learn from her secrets. There is no fear of death to poison love, and it is miraculous to watch this indescribably lovely grandmother musician take leave of this world by making peace with all in it. An extraordinary documentary and the opposite of depressing.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nBlood Rain<\/strong>\nThailand\n73 mins\nAchitaphon Piansukprasert<\/p>\nIf true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in \u2018Blood Rain\u2019, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose \u2018Gagee: The Lady\u2019s Tale\u2019. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nPain of Silence<\/strong>\nThailand,\n77 mins,\nChristopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong<\/p>\nThree years gone by, no gig. The pandemic lockdown has plunged traditional performance arts into a coma, with many accomplished Isan musicians forced to take up construction jobs. The star is Boonma, a blind Isan phin master who taught himself from hearing others play. He has to be carefully led to a red plastic chair on a makeshift stage, but then plays like an angel from heaven. We see him perform seated on a junk cart pushed by his not young wife; the COVID mask has scrounged up his face, giving him a sour and bewildered look as he fists up the coins at an intersection. We see a mermaid puppet swim in air among ancient ruins. But all interviewees are wonderful, the real thing, in this beautifully-shot labour of true love that dives headfirst into the meaning and purpose of art. Where is the Ministry of Culture in all this? In a priceless scene an official at the Cultural Promotion Dept details his massive workload: cultural promotion of course, royal ceremonies as well, and \u201ccontemporary art is important too\u2014we can\u2019t just stay the same.\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nTake Your Space<\/strong>\nCzech\n76 mins\nKarol\u00edna Alvarez<\/p>\nThere\u2019s not one bad frame in this beautifully filmed and edited art documentary, a headlong dive into Mexican graffiti and street art. Initially a Californian import, it has grown hybrid Olmec roots, in a country so welcoming to wall painters who fit neatly into its Mexican School of Muralism. The soundtrack is anti-colonial rap: \u201cRemember, Gringo, you stole our land! You call me illegal but you took everything!\u201d Where \u201cclouds of money bring showers of bullets\u201d, rapping, skateboarding, graffiti and street art are not just cool but an authentic act of defiance. How much richer the world is that these people have chosen to paint walls instead of blowing them up.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nWinter In Pluto<\/strong>\nUS\n56 mins\nRiley Teahan<\/p>\nWe dive into the navel of the iconic torso of the Venus de Milo, and find Disco Persephone\/Aphrodite alone in her throbbing pink 1970\u2019s prison cell\/boudoir, gazing out of her round window and sometimes her pink TV, at lovers on earth. This is a contemporary dance movie, Bollywood on shroom with bodies of every shape and colour. The dancing is awesome and inspired. The last sequence has flashing lights, not good for epileptics, who scientists say should smoke more weed.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nUjan Story<\/strong>\nArmenia\n70 mins\nShahram Badakhshan Mehr<\/p>\nIt starts with a quote from Job (\u201cI\u2019ve heard of Thee by ear. Now I\u2019ve seen Thee.\u201d) so you know it\u2019s about the trials of life in Armenian Kalava, but the dreamy realism is delicious. Yes, life is tough but also joyous. So what? If that\u2019s not stoned, what is? The movie\u2019s textures are pleasurable. A grape-festooned courtyard; fruit ripening on trees as old people tend to them; bare feet squishing grapes to make wine; a highway through empty brown fields where the very earth seems charred by war; a child in pink with dark intense eyes. Families are separated by migration to safety and security in Fortress Europe and life is kind of sad but, always, beautiful, and the neon crucifix atop the hill that has gone out is restored to light. A rare film that takes you almost physically there on a magic carpet.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nAmerican Pot Story: Oaksterdam<\/strong>\nUS\n96 mins\nRavit Markus, Dan Katzir<\/p>\nA serious film about seriously brave and lovely people, this important documentary on the history of the legalisation campaign in the US is the untold story of the \u2018Mayor of Oaksterdam\u2019 Richard Lee, a ganja activist in a wheelchair (\u201cBusiness is my activism\u201d; \u201cBreak the law to change the law\u201d; \u201cControl and tax pot\u201d), as told by his sidekick and successor Dale Sky Jones. The dark climax is reached when no cops are available to stop a mass shooting at a Christian university nearby because they are all busy staging an overkill FBI raid on Richard\u2019s Oaksterdam University pot business school. Dale: \u201cThis is about decriminalisation as much as legalisation. People are arrested, their lives destroyed.\u201d The raid and the expensive lobbying campaign to end prohibition ruin them, but by putting the ganja debate into mainstream politics, \u201cWe can honestly say we\u2019ve left the world better than we found it.\u201d Indeed you have, and thank you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n3 Short programs<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. 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![\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nCannabis Medicinal<\/strong>\nArgentina\n61 mins\nSara Silvia Kochen, Emiliano Serra<\/p>\nThe beautiful pioneers of cannabis research in this solidly enlightening documentary inspire and console us, and it\u2019s not just the autism and epilepsy mums who\u2019ve done so much to end prohibition. At its heart is a university research chemist whose brief \u2018The Scientific Basis of Cannabis\u2019 is covered by special governmental permits. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the chemical difference in our brain between when we\u2019re happy and unhappy,\u201d he says, explaining the compound he\u2019s named Anandamide from Sanskrit Anandamida, \u201cThe mechanism of cannabis is a great mystery.\u201d Other memorable lines: \u201cIt\u2019s not a gateway drug but a gateway to exit addiction. That\u2019s part of the demonising\u201d (a hospital doctor); \u201cIt was the first time he found something funny\u201d (mum whose autistic son laughed for the first time in his life); \u201cYou can\u2019t be healed if you aren\u2019t stoned!\u201d (old hippie grower fed up with criticism of side effects of cannabis).\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nIt\u2019s A Wrap<\/strong>\nIsrael\n56 mins\nAmit Miller, Miri Urman<\/p>\nHaya invites family and friends to a farewell party. Farewell to what? \u201cTo life,\u201d she says cheerfully. She has terminal cancer and wants to die on her own terms, with dignity. It\u2019s getting hard to swallow so she\u2019s stopped taking food and medicine, though she does smoke enormous joints (\u201cCannabis\u2026Good\u201d) and still paints her lips red. Her determined stoicism is both wise and natural, and reasonable. \u201cI\u2019m afraid of pain and nothing else,\u201d she says firmly. She would die as cheerfully and logically as she has lived, as we soon learn from her secrets. There is no fear of death to poison love, and it is miraculous to watch this indescribably lovely grandmother musician take leave of this world by making peace with all in it. An extraordinary documentary and the opposite of depressing.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nBlood Rain<\/strong>\nThailand\n73 mins\nAchitaphon Piansukprasert<\/p>\nIf true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in \u2018Blood Rain\u2019, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose \u2018Gagee: The Lady\u2019s Tale\u2019. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nPain of Silence<\/strong>\nThailand,\n77 mins,\nChristopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong<\/p>\nThree years gone by, no gig. The pandemic lockdown has plunged traditional performance arts into a coma, with many accomplished Isan musicians forced to take up construction jobs. The star is Boonma, a blind Isan phin master who taught himself from hearing others play. He has to be carefully led to a red plastic chair on a makeshift stage, but then plays like an angel from heaven. We see him perform seated on a junk cart pushed by his not young wife; the COVID mask has scrounged up his face, giving him a sour and bewildered look as he fists up the coins at an intersection. We see a mermaid puppet swim in air among ancient ruins. But all interviewees are wonderful, the real thing, in this beautifully-shot labour of true love that dives headfirst into the meaning and purpose of art. Where is the Ministry of Culture in all this? In a priceless scene an official at the Cultural Promotion Dept details his massive workload: cultural promotion of course, royal ceremonies as well, and \u201ccontemporary art is important too\u2014we can\u2019t just stay the same.\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nTake Your Space<\/strong>\nCzech\n76 mins\nKarol\u00edna Alvarez<\/p>\nThere\u2019s not one bad frame in this beautifully filmed and edited art documentary, a headlong dive into Mexican graffiti and street art. Initially a Californian import, it has grown hybrid Olmec roots, in a country so welcoming to wall painters who fit neatly into its Mexican School of Muralism. The soundtrack is anti-colonial rap: \u201cRemember, Gringo, you stole our land! You call me illegal but you took everything!\u201d Where \u201cclouds of money bring showers of bullets\u201d, rapping, skateboarding, graffiti and street art are not just cool but an authentic act of defiance. How much richer the world is that these people have chosen to paint walls instead of blowing them up.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nWinter In Pluto<\/strong>\nUS\n56 mins\nRiley Teahan<\/p>\nWe dive into the navel of the iconic torso of the Venus de Milo, and find Disco Persephone\/Aphrodite alone in her throbbing pink 1970\u2019s prison cell\/boudoir, gazing out of her round window and sometimes her pink TV, at lovers on earth. This is a contemporary dance movie, Bollywood on shroom with bodies of every shape and colour. The dancing is awesome and inspired. The last sequence has flashing lights, not good for epileptics, who scientists say should smoke more weed.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nUjan Story<\/strong>\nArmenia\n70 mins\nShahram Badakhshan Mehr<\/p>\nIt starts with a quote from Job (\u201cI\u2019ve heard of Thee by ear. Now I\u2019ve seen Thee.\u201d) so you know it\u2019s about the trials of life in Armenian Kalava, but the dreamy realism is delicious. Yes, life is tough but also joyous. So what? If that\u2019s not stoned, what is? The movie\u2019s textures are pleasurable. A grape-festooned courtyard; fruit ripening on trees as old people tend to them; bare feet squishing grapes to make wine; a highway through empty brown fields where the very earth seems charred by war; a child in pink with dark intense eyes. Families are separated by migration to safety and security in Fortress Europe and life is kind of sad but, always, beautiful, and the neon crucifix atop the hill that has gone out is restored to light. A rare film that takes you almost physically there on a magic carpet.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nAmerican Pot Story: Oaksterdam<\/strong>\nUS\n96 mins\nRavit Markus, Dan Katzir<\/p>\nA serious film about seriously brave and lovely people, this important documentary on the history of the legalisation campaign in the US is the untold story of the \u2018Mayor of Oaksterdam\u2019 Richard Lee, a ganja activist in a wheelchair (\u201cBusiness is my activism\u201d; \u201cBreak the law to change the law\u201d; \u201cControl and tax pot\u201d), as told by his sidekick and successor Dale Sky Jones. The dark climax is reached when no cops are available to stop a mass shooting at a Christian university nearby because they are all busy staging an overkill FBI raid on Richard\u2019s Oaksterdam University pot business school. Dale: \u201cThis is about decriminalisation as much as legalisation. People are arrested, their lives destroyed.\u201d The raid and the expensive lobbying campaign to end prohibition ruin them, but by putting the ganja debate into mainstream politics, \u201cWe can honestly say we\u2019ve left the world better than we found it.\u201d Indeed you have, and thank you.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n3 Short programs<\/h1>\n\n\n\n \t\t\n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. 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Cannabis Medicinal<\/strong> The beautiful pioneers of cannabis research in this solidly enlightening documentary inspire and console us, and it\u2019s not just the autism and epilepsy mums who\u2019ve done so much to end prohibition. At its heart is a university research chemist whose brief \u2018The Scientific Basis of Cannabis\u2019 is covered by special governmental permits. \u201cWe don\u2019t know the chemical difference in our brain between when we\u2019re happy and unhappy,\u201d he says, explaining the compound he\u2019s named Anandamide from Sanskrit Anandamida, \u201cThe mechanism of cannabis is a great mystery.\u201d Other memorable lines: \u201cIt\u2019s not a gateway drug but a gateway to exit addiction. That\u2019s part of the demonising\u201d (a hospital doctor); \u201cIt was the first time he found something funny\u201d (mum whose autistic son laughed for the first time in his life); \u201cYou can\u2019t be healed if you aren\u2019t stoned!\u201d (old hippie grower fed up with criticism of side effects of cannabis). It\u2019s A Wrap<\/strong> Haya invites family and friends to a farewell party. Farewell to what? \u201cTo life,\u201d she says cheerfully. She has terminal cancer and wants to die on her own terms, with dignity. It\u2019s getting hard to swallow so she\u2019s stopped taking food and medicine, though she does smoke enormous joints (\u201cCannabis\u2026Good\u201d) and still paints her lips red. Her determined stoicism is both wise and natural, and reasonable. \u201cI\u2019m afraid of pain and nothing else,\u201d she says firmly. She would die as cheerfully and logically as she has lived, as we soon learn from her secrets. There is no fear of death to poison love, and it is miraculous to watch this indescribably lovely grandmother musician take leave of this world by making peace with all in it. An extraordinary documentary and the opposite of depressing. Blood Rain<\/strong> If true cinematic horror is achieved with an instinctual understanding of movement, of shapes that change in eerie ways, that instinct is on grand display here in \u2018Blood Rain\u2019, another tactile soul-sucking experience from the man who brought us the also wordless and grandiose \u2018Gagee: The Lady\u2019s Tale\u2019. The innocent but near-obscene images will stay with you: the shrouded humanoid carcass with red eyes; the crescent moon or lunar eclipse gaping and shutting its malignant grin like a hungry mouth in the sky; a fluorescent purple python with distended belly escaping from an ornate golden frame, empty of portrait; the giant red vampire lips that shimmer and suck away our life force. All of it plays to camera, in your face, no escape, with unrelenting intensity. As shapes shift and things become, as shadows grow alive and pulsate with intent energy, it dawns that the film has captured the textures of the primeval Thai animist worldview, where the elementals are very much alive, and reaching out for you. Pain of Silence<\/strong> Three years gone by, no gig. The pandemic lockdown has plunged traditional performance arts into a coma, with many accomplished Isan musicians forced to take up construction jobs. The star is Boonma, a blind Isan phin master who taught himself from hearing others play. He has to be carefully led to a red plastic chair on a makeshift stage, but then plays like an angel from heaven. We see him perform seated on a junk cart pushed by his not young wife; the COVID mask has scrounged up his face, giving him a sour and bewildered look as he fists up the coins at an intersection. We see a mermaid puppet swim in air among ancient ruins. But all interviewees are wonderful, the real thing, in this beautifully-shot labour of true love that dives headfirst into the meaning and purpose of art. Where is the Ministry of Culture in all this? In a priceless scene an official at the Cultural Promotion Dept details his massive workload: cultural promotion of course, royal ceremonies as well, and \u201ccontemporary art is important too\u2014we can\u2019t just stay the same.\u201d Take Your Space<\/strong> There\u2019s not one bad frame in this beautifully filmed and edited art documentary, a headlong dive into Mexican graffiti and street art. Initially a Californian import, it has grown hybrid Olmec roots, in a country so welcoming to wall painters who fit neatly into its Mexican School of Muralism. The soundtrack is anti-colonial rap: \u201cRemember, Gringo, you stole our land! You call me illegal but you took everything!\u201d Where \u201cclouds of money bring showers of bullets\u201d, rapping, skateboarding, graffiti and street art are not just cool but an authentic act of defiance. How much richer the world is that these people have chosen to paint walls instead of blowing them up. Winter In Pluto<\/strong> We dive into the navel of the iconic torso of the Venus de Milo, and find Disco Persephone\/Aphrodite alone in her throbbing pink 1970\u2019s prison cell\/boudoir, gazing out of her round window and sometimes her pink TV, at lovers on earth. This is a contemporary dance movie, Bollywood on shroom with bodies of every shape and colour. The dancing is awesome and inspired. The last sequence has flashing lights, not good for epileptics, who scientists say should smoke more weed. Ujan Story<\/strong> It starts with a quote from Job (\u201cI\u2019ve heard of Thee by ear. Now I\u2019ve seen Thee.\u201d) so you know it\u2019s about the trials of life in Armenian Kalava, but the dreamy realism is delicious. Yes, life is tough but also joyous. So what? If that\u2019s not stoned, what is? The movie\u2019s textures are pleasurable. A grape-festooned courtyard; fruit ripening on trees as old people tend to them; bare feet squishing grapes to make wine; a highway through empty brown fields where the very earth seems charred by war; a child in pink with dark intense eyes. Families are separated by migration to safety and security in Fortress Europe and life is kind of sad but, always, beautiful, and the neon crucifix atop the hill that has gone out is restored to light. A rare film that takes you almost physically there on a magic carpet. American Pot Story: Oaksterdam<\/strong> A serious film about seriously brave and lovely people, this important documentary on the history of the legalisation campaign in the US is the untold story of the \u2018Mayor of Oaksterdam\u2019 Richard Lee, a ganja activist in a wheelchair (\u201cBusiness is my activism\u201d; \u201cBreak the law to change the law\u201d; \u201cControl and tax pot\u201d), as told by his sidekick and successor Dale Sky Jones. The dark climax is reached when no cops are available to stop a mass shooting at a Christian university nearby because they are all busy staging an overkill FBI raid on Richard\u2019s Oaksterdam University pot business school. Dale: \u201cThis is about decriminalisation as much as legalisation. People are arrested, their lives destroyed.\u201d The raid and the expensive lobbying campaign to end prohibition ruin them, but by putting the ganja debate into mainstream politics, \u201cWe can honestly say we\u2019ve left the world better than we found it.\u201d Indeed you have, and thank you. [All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n
\nArgentina
\n61 mins
\nSara Silvia Kochen, Emiliano Serra<\/p>\n
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\nIsrael
\n56 mins
\nAmit Miller, Miri Urman<\/p>\n
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\nThailand
\n73 mins
\nAchitaphon Piansukprasert<\/p>\n
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\nThailand,
\n77 mins,
\nChristopher Janwong McKiggan, Poomphong Kumwong<\/p>\n
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\nCzech
\n76 mins
\nKarol\u00edna Alvarez<\/p>\n
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\nUS
\n56 mins
\nRiley Teahan<\/p>\n
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\nArmenia
\n70 mins
\nShahram Badakhshan Mehr<\/p>\n
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\nUS
\n96 mins
\nRavit Markus, Dan Katzir<\/p>\n
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![\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. No close-ups until he eats a watermelon, its sweet juice salty with his tears.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\u0e1a\u0e23\u0e23\u0e22\u0e32\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e07\u0e32\u0e19\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e23\u0e32\u0e07\u0e27\u0e31\u0e25\u0e1b\u0e35\u0e41\u0e23\u0e01 :<\/div>\nhttps:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/…\/call-for-entries-amazing…\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFor more information<\/div>\nplease contact:<\/div>\n096 112 2601<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFacebook : Cinema Oasis<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazing Stoner Movie Fest 2023 is back!! 9 \u2013 12 November 2023 at Cinema Oasis in Bangkok, Thailand __________________________________ Amazing Stoner Movie Manifesto What is a stoner movie?This was the Golden Ganja question as we watched the exotic entries one after another. 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![\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. No close-ups until he eats a watermelon, its sweet juice salty with his tears.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\u0e1a\u0e23\u0e23\u0e22\u0e32\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e07\u0e32\u0e19\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e23\u0e32\u0e07\u0e27\u0e31\u0e25\u0e1b\u0e35\u0e41\u0e23\u0e01 :<\/div>\nhttps:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/…\/call-for-entries-amazing…\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFor more information<\/div>\nplease contact:<\/div>\n096 112 2601<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFacebook : Cinema Oasis<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazing Stoner Movie Fest 2023 is back!! 9 \u2013 12 November 2023 at Cinema Oasis in Bangkok, Thailand __________________________________ Amazing Stoner Movie Manifesto What is a stoner movie?This was the Golden Ganja question as we watched the exotic entries one after another. 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![\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t \n \n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. No close-ups until he eats a watermelon, its sweet juice salty with his tears.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n[All reviews by Dr Alice Skinhead unless otherwise stated]<\/p>\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\u0e1a\u0e23\u0e23\u0e22\u0e32\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e07\u0e32\u0e19\u0e1b\u0e23\u0e30\u0e01\u0e32\u0e28\u0e23\u0e32\u0e07\u0e27\u0e31\u0e25\u0e1b\u0e35\u0e41\u0e23\u0e01 :<\/div>\nhttps:\/\/www.cinemaoasis.com\/…\/call-for-entries-amazing…\/<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFor more information<\/div>\nplease contact:<\/div>\n096 112 2601<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\nFacebook : Cinema Oasis<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amazing Stoner Movie Fest 2023 is back!! 9 \u2013 12 November 2023 at Cinema Oasis in Bangkok, Thailand __________________________________ Amazing Stoner Movie Manifesto What is a stoner movie?This was the Golden Ganja question as we watched the exotic entries one after another. 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![\n \n <\/a>\n <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div> \n\t\t\t\n \n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t<\/div>\t<\/div>\n\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nSHORTS 1: GREEN SPIRIT\n(Total R\/T 79 mins)<\/h3>\nLava Lamp<\/strong>\nSlovenia\n10 mins\nAljosa Toplak\nYes, it\u2019s 2 dudes watching TV and a lava lamp, but it\u2019s authentic and mesmerising. Some magical realism with a glass of juice as images of ancient cathedrals play on TV. As one of them says of the lava lamp, \u201cSo simple, yet it completely takes over you.\u201d<\/p>\nThe Green, Green Pyramid<\/strong>\nThailand\n23 mins\nTony Cheung\nRock climbers in Thailand tackle the ultimate \u2018Sailor Moon\u2019 route up a steep pyramid of limestone and jungle in Kanjanaburi (pronounced \u201cGanja-naburee\u201d). This riveting cinematic feat by the Climbing Documentary Project is one hell of a way of getting high.<\/p>\nBlessed Demon<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nKitpasit Tinnachartarak; Peerapat Singtothong; Thanarote Khaopare\nThe former Kingdom of Ubon, Northeast Siam, AD 1900. It\u2019s a battle between Good and Evil as men in modern colonial military uniform shoot down uncivilised savages. This is likely the first cinematic depiction of a movement that officially-sanctioned historians have named \u2018Gabot Phee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed Demon Rebellion. Now we know its t rue uncorrupted name: Gabot Phu Mee Boon\u2019\u2014the Blessed One Rebellion. \u2018Blessed Demon\u2019 is no cutesy animation; the art is accomplished and beautiful. This hybrid expressionist video art cum counter-propaganda scream is a cry for historical justice and accuracy. The fascistic propaganda machine is chillingly, and realistically, portrayed, as is the courtroom presided over by a faint white tiny figure that fades away.<\/p>\nPah Paisal<\/strong>\nThailand\n10 mins\nPichai Pusumpun\nBeauty and sincerity lift this film far above your average \u2018green Buddhist propaganda\u2019. Lovingly filmed with a nice rhythm reminiscent of walking meditation, it\u2019s green, it\u2019s healing and it\u2019s good to watch when you\u2019re stoned.<\/p>\nThe Door<\/strong>\nRomania\n13 mins\nAlessandro Cubicciotti\nA man walks through a door and is caught in a loop. Horror and transcendence together suggest this is a film about the bewilderment of sudden death, and ultimate surrender. Wordless but utterly crystalline.<\/p>\nHead In The Clouds<\/strong>\nGermany\n12 mins\nMoritz G\u00f6bel\nAs black and white and German as it gets in the best sense, visually a contemporary baby Metropolis. A man wakes up to find himself larger than life. The disconcerting yet potentially sublime experience of sudden death or instantaneous enlightenment, whichever suggests itself to your heart: You know Me; You know Who I Am: Who You Are.\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\nShorts 2: FREEDOM & HYPOCRISY\n(Total R\/T 122 mins)<\/h3>\nFatih The Conquerer<\/strong>\nTurkey\n15 mins\nOnur Yagiz\nA Middle-Eastern freedom screamfest deriding sexist attitudes with devastating precision and abandon, as a group of young men sneak a joint in a parked car at a wedding.<\/p>\nAte OG<\/strong>\nPhillippines\n17 mins\nKevin Mayuga\nCOVID lockdown finds Ate the housemaid stuck 24\/7 with 2 spoilt brats trapped at home. They run her ragged and we hate the rich. But weed is discovered in the boy\u2019s room, and shared. Unpredictable and surprisingly non-judgemental.<\/p>\nHousemaid<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrach Rojanasinvilai\nWhile class is the major theme of Thai melodramas, this more realistic and much more accomplished exploration of class relations is a shamelessly sincere tearjerker for anyone who\u2019s ever bonded with that special nanny and any nanny who\u2019s ever bonded with that special child. No, there\u2019s no weed in it, but it goes with the Filipino film about a housemaid that does have weed in it.<\/p>\nThe Heart Through Deserts Runs<\/strong>\nGermany\n15 mins\nGary Vanisian\nBoth the oppressed: a perfect specimen of a woman athlete for whom sex is verboten, and the headless black monolith behind a desk oppressing her, have resonance beyond a German filmmaker\u2019s creepy, poetic nightmare, as she changes into a scarlet velvet dress to masturbate in a poppy field.<\/p>\nThat Smell<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nNuttorn Kungwanklai\nSomeone tapes a joint under a\u2014school desk? No, it\u2019s a hallway table in a young couple\u2019s home. The man is sneaking out to smoke it in their nothing backyard. She sniffs his clothes for tell-tale scents, tells someone on the phone, \u201cIt\u2019s suspicious, he\u2019s suddenly using perfume.\u201d The long takes and determinedly mundane surroundings aux serious farang art films may put some off, but what it says about hypocrisy is a very Thai punch in the gut.<\/p>\nLucia<\/strong>\nSlovakia\n24 mins\nMikulas Krispin Izdinsky\nAn actress turning 50 with a phone-addicted daughter and a martial arts fanatic husband suddenly realises \u201cI don\u2019t have to worry about what people think of me.\u201d Time for new things. \u2018Lucia\u2019 has a lovely light touch and oozes charm.<\/p>\nPurple Dalha<\/strong>\nThailand\n20 mins\nPrim Patnasiri\n\u201cI\u2019ve never heard my mother speak her mother tongue,\u201d says a woman whose parents\u2019 cross-cultural romance was opposed by their families (Thai and Malay, presumably Buddhist and Muslim). Some lovely images in this stream of consciousness, ripped open by her cry from the heart: \u201cI want to leave this bastard country!\u201d\n____________________________________________________________<\/p>\n<\/div>\nShorts 3: CRAZY FOR YOU\n(Total R\/T 94 mins)<\/h3>\nA Nightmare In The Living Heart<\/strong>\nThailand\n30 mins\nPeeranat Pattamawiphak\nLet\u2019s see: an \u201cimaginary bamboo forest manifested by our prana power-breath specifically for Kung Fu training\u201d; cute girl in white Kung Fu suit; Red Chinese Jason in Isan ghost mask; the one-eyed spirit of a broken-hearted ex who killed himself; and passing mention of \u201cPrang, the girl who paints with menstrual blood\u201d. How can one resist? And portentous philosophy in Chinese: \u201cThe heart of Kung Fu is not victory over the enemy but victory over your own heart\u201d, and \u201cIt\u2019s not about outer power but inner peace.\u201d Oh wow.<\/p>\nMuddy Goes To College<\/strong>\nUS\n11 mins\nAlex Reinhard\nCaged genius talking dog escapes from a mad scientist\u2019s lab in a garage. Described by some as \u201ca cross between Beethoven and Home Alone\u201d. What more do we need? And the dog is good.<\/p>\nMy Best Friend<\/strong>\nThailand\n11 mins\nMeisa Jane Siridamrongphun\nAnxiety grows at the office of a software company about AI costing jobs. We don\u2019t see faces, just the bellies of washed-up middle-aged men, as \u2018Cece\u2019 the rudimentary DIY AI-driven robot grows a rubber hand, and more. Determinedly flat visually and aurally.<\/p>\nBergus Chan the Asian Dandy<\/strong>\nJapan\n25 mins\nYoshi Max\nAnother kinetic quest for Yoshi Max\u2019s Bk fans as Bergus Chan the wildlife protection guard dog meets Juno, the girl in coral sequin dress in \u2018Italia\u2019. \u201cIce cream is the solution to every problem,\u201d she says as a Golden Buddha takes them into a psychedelic vortex deporting her to a stony beach in Thailand. It\u2019s not as apocalyptic or intense as his earlier films and there is no superficial coherence, but the random imagery and sentence in their complete embodiment of the clich\u00e9 quintessence of things can stab right in the heart, eg. \u201cThe ghost ship of Japan\u2026dead samurai nearby\u201d and the giant red spider that carries his love away over the sea in an egg sac.<\/p>\nPass In Situ<\/strong>\nChina\n17 mins\nJohn Cheung\nIn a town being demolished to make way for material progress, static wide shots of real locations\u2014a bridge over a stream, a billiard table\u2019s green expanse, a fruit stand at night\u2014become stage sets for the sound and fury of unconsciously-spent life\u2014which is rushing away from a time-waster good for nothing young man, neither alive nor dead. 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