One of three films commissioned by the Jeonju International Film Festival in 2005. A couple escaped their family to look for a spiritual tree in the jungle. There is a song at night, a song that spoke about an innocent idea of love and a quest for happiness. Worldly Desires is an experimental project where I invited a filmmaker friend, Pimpaka Towira, to shoot the love story by day and the song by night. The story, Deep Red Bloody Night, was written by my assistant who wanted to reprise a forbidden love story in a more romantic time in the past. I picked a pop song, Will I be Lucky? to convey a sense of guiltless freedom one feels when being hit by love. The video is a little simulation of manners, dedicated to the memories of filmmaking in the jungle during the year 2001-2005. -Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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Apichatpong Weerasethakul Director · Pimpaka Towira Director Sompot Chidgasornpongse Editor
Budget $50K · First release January 1, 2005 · Produced in South Korea, Thailand
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$50,000
Production
Kick the Machine
Production
Jeonju International Film Festival
Production
South Korea · Thailand
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Original language
Thai
Spoken on screen
Thai
Release dates
Thailand · January 1, 2005
South Korea · April 23, 2005
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No release date listed for United States.
Denmark
November 15, 2008 · CPH:DOX
Greece
December 10, 2010 · Thessaloniki International Film Festival
Philippines
November 15, 2011 · Cinemanila International Film Festival
Singapore
June 9, 2018 · Asian Film Archive
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