Norasinghavatar

Norasinghavatar is a short fantasy film by Wisit Sasanatieng, and was produced last year as part of a project called [take a deep breath] Short Film Project in Commemoration of the Celebration on the Auspicious Occasion of His Majesty the King's 80th Birthday Anniversary. Other directors partaking in the project include Apichatpong Weerasethakul and Pen-Ek Ratanaruang.

Wisit's film is inspired by Hindu mythology, and features Norasinghawatarn, an incarnation of the god Narayana. The film's characters are all played by masked actors, filmed against bluescreen backgrounds generated by CGI. As in Wisit's films Tears Of The Black Tiger and Citizen Dog, there is extensive digital manipulation in post-production, brightening the colours to an almost psychedelic degree. The film lasts for only fifteen minutes; I could have happily sat through a feature-length version.