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Just in time for our appearance at the UBUD Writers and Readers Festival in Bali, Noir Nation posts a short film interview with photographer Aroon Thaewchatturat on Sacred Skin, the first English language book on Thailand’s spirit tattoos, Sak Yant. Watch the clip here! Watch it here!
Check out Marc Eberle‘s excellent and very tasty short film on one of Cambodia’s culinary highlights: The spiders of Skuon.
Hm. Producer Api Sritakae has just remixed the soundtrack to our little Sacred Skin movie. Sacred Skin is the first English language book on Thailand’s sacred tattoos. Photographed by Aroon Thaewchatturat and written by me, published by Visionary World and designed by the NEW Studio in London. Song called Itchy Skin by Pussy & The [...]
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I first visited Cambodia in 2001, on a research trip to find a story for a documentary on the country newly emerging from decades of civil war. A year later, director Marc Eberle and myself were back, shooting The Khmer` Heart of Stone, the first feature length docu for which I wrote the screenplay. The [...]
The trailer of Camera Camera (2009), a documentary film by Malcolm Murray, about the nature and effect of mass tourism in Laos, offers an intriguing glimpse of the Land of the Million Elephants and the million backpackers that travel through it. Who said the camera never lies, one might as oneself, as one looks at [...]
The trailer for the first documentary film I worked on (screenplay and production manager), The Greatest Show on Earth, can now be viewed on director Marc Eberle’s website. The 30 min documentary follows Alok Sharma, the top policeman in charge of the 2001 Maha Kumbh Mela, the largest gathering of people on planet earth, ever! Being [...]
Swedish photographer Gerhard Joren has produced a short documentary on the birth of Bangkok-based band Pussy & The Learjets. The two and a half minute film documents the Rock’n’Roll band’s live debut at The Overstay on January 15th. The four piece, formed in late 2010, is currently playing dates around Bangkok, Thailand and will record [...]
Move over James Bond and let Fantomas terrorize the world’s richest men. I have been watching the 1960s Fantomas movies with Jean Marais – one of France’s best known leading men and a man who is as camp as camp gets – as the famed face-changing bad man battling it out with France’s supercop, Louis [...]