Like the Relentless Fury of the Pounding Waves

• แม่ย่านาง (Mae Ya Nang) Thailand / USA 1994
  22:37 minutes / Originally 16mm, re-edited on transfer to Digital in 1996, Mono / B/W
• Director / Camera / Editor Apichatpong Weerasethakul
• Cast Piyaporn Tananupappisal, Juthamanee Tananupappisal, Noppadol Tungsakul, Tawin Jaidee, Chatsakkarin Pahukul, Tawat Jareonwuttitum
• Sound from Mae Ya Nang, a radio play by Katetip Productions. Director: Galaya Tinapong. Radio recorded at Roongsiam Studio, Bangkok.
• Advisor Shellie Fleming
  Produced at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago

It was a hot day in a small town in Thailand, where a mystic radio filled the air. Lives were trapped in the time of the radio play, of the photograph, and of the film. This experimental documentary leisurely examines the shifting focus of image and sound. The narrative form is broken, sometimes improvised and sometimes rigidly structured.

The radio wave is transmitted from one place to many others, delivering a melodramatic play, The Sea Goddess: “She has waited for centuries to reunite with her lover who has been protecting a ship’s bow, which her spirit inhabits.”