Belated Punctum: La Jetee 2 / Meteorites / Dogtooth (M+2016)

Belated Punctum: La Jetée 2 (2015)
16 min, Mandarin with Chinese and English subtitles, Digital, Taiwan, Category: IIA

Slideshow Cinema is an important series of works in the oeuvre of Taiwanese director Kao Chung-li. His new film, Belated Punctum: La Jetée 2, is the seventh instalment of this series. Drawing on Chris Marker’s 1962 film, La Jetée, Kao uses audio mixing, literature, photographs, and film negatives to explore the physical conditions and constraints of image, as well as how concepts such as afterimage and possibilities of time produce new consciousness and history.
Director: Kao Chung-li

Meteorites (2007)
16 min, Thai with English subtitles, DCP, Thailand, Category: I

Thailand’s Ministry of Culture commissioned this film as part of the Thai monarch’s eightieth birthday celebration. The film oscillates between footage of the director’s hometown of Khon Kaen, the daily lives of his family members, and his own dreams of the sea to form a lyrical message about freedom and peace.
Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul

Dogtooth (2009)
93 min, Greek with English subtitles, 35mm, Greece, Category: III

A totalitarian mother and father build an enclosing wall to limit their children’s activities, sever communication with the outside world, and educate their offspring with distorted information in hopes of giving them an uncontaminated life. For the three siblings, cut off from the outside world since birth, their home videos are the greatest form of entertainment even though they have seen them enough times to know them by heart. In their minds, the planes in the sky are mere toys, and zombies are a type of yellow flower.
Director: Yorgos Lanthimos