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Ghosts and Numbers
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Filmmaker Name:
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Alan Klima
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Film Length:
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67 min
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Film Year:
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2009
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Duration:
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46-75 min
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Decade:
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2000s
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Color:
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color
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Set in the aftermath of the devastating financial crash of the Thai baht and the Asian monetary crisis, Ghosts and Numbers is a fantastic meditation on Thai encounters with the spirit world and the world of numbers, as these intersect in unexpected ways. The film journeys with displaced farmers who can no longer work the land for a living and can only eek one out by selling lottery tickets on Bangkok streets. They are double-threatened by an impending conversion of the Thai national lottery to completely virtual form, displacing the paper ticket and cutting them out of the economy of numbers altogether.
Intercut with the story of migrant lottery sellers are the stories of an avid lottery seller who communicates with spirits and the story of the devastating financial crash visually represented through a surreal journey through Bangkok streets. The film includes an amazing possession séance that is boosted by mobile technology and also relates stories of ghosts and haunting that span past and present and which are set among frightful trees in the country and ruined buildings in Bangkok, left half-built after the financial crash. The dream-like passages are presented by an ambiguous narrator who takes on increasingly spectral form in the stories she tells.
Ghosts and Numbers
Directed by
Alan Klima
Written by
Alan Klima
Cast
Patcharee Katasema
Kamnoi Bangsongkit
Ba Thongbai
Nong Dao
Napporn Duangchalerm
Atpinnya Kadtasema
Jan Jaimit
Production
Alan Klima (Producer, Director)
Alan Klima (Executive Producer)
Patcharee Katasema (Producer, Executive Producer)
Writing
Alan Klima (Writer)
Camera
Alan Klima (Cinematographer/DP)
Art Department
Alan Klima (Production Designer)
Editor
Alan Klima
Sound Editor
Alan Klima
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