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Ghosts and numbers / direct...
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
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material_proyectable Rebiun28353954 https://catalogo.rebiun.org/rebiun/record/Rebiun28353954 m o c vz |zazu| 130227s2009 mau066 g o vltha d 908386725 1058117845 1065566904 1085189872 1125647619 1136260045 AU@ 000053426835 NZ1 14938093 AU@ 000054719988 ALSTP eng pn ALSTP OCLCO OCLCQ VRC COO OCLCO CUS OCLCO OCLCF OCLCO EUW OCLCO OCL OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ EZ9 OCLCA INT AU@ OCLCQ YOU TKN ALSTP OCLCQ WYU tha eng a-th--- Ghosts and numbers directed and written by Alan Klima Watertown, MA Documentary Educational Resources (DER) 2009 Watertown, MA Watertown, MA Documentary Educational Resources (DER) 1 online resource (66 min.). 1 online resource (66 min.). 010613 Two-dimensional Moving Image tdi rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier digital stereo rda streaming video file Ethnographic video online volume 1 Title from resource description page (viewed Feb. 27, 2013) Access restricted to authorised ANU staff and students. ANU 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 This edition in Thai with English subtitles Financial crises- Thailand Farmers- Thailand- Economic conditions Lotteries- Thailand Lotteries- Employees Seances- Thailand Economic history. Farmers- Economic conditions. Financial crises. Lotteries. Lotteries- Employees. Seances. Thailand- Economic conditions Thailand. Encoded moving images Nonfiction films. Nonfiction films. Bansongkit, Kamnoi Dao, Nong Duangchalerm, Napporn Katasema, Patcharee narrator Klima, Alan 1964-) director screenwriter Thongbai, Ba