Before discovering Issan for ourselves, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Uncle Boonmee film was our first invitation to discover this less travelled region of the kingdom – and supposedly the most genuine too. Then we met some Issanese which Bangkok if full of and from there it became very clear that Issan had to be a special place that deserved a Kore Kamino collection.
To come back to it, Uncle Boonmee’s images carry perfectly the genuine nature of this beautiful region while showing all its magical hallucinatory aspect… the unreal and mysterious folk beliefs which are huge there.
Needless to say, we were not disappointed…
Uncle Boonmee’s images… They are very similar to the Issan we experienced… And if not all captured on our own digital cameras… images and feelings definitely lived there.
End of day, burning dead leaves and bringing the buffalos home… beautiful smells and atmosphere!
… being told the village’s stories by wise senior figure Khun Kamput
Bits of celebration left over from the end of Buddhist Lent Festival
…walking among some ancient ruins and finding two silver guardians.
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