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The
Adventure of Iron Pussy
Presented by GMM Pictures & Ray Pictures,
In association with Kick the Machine
35 mm (from Digital)/
90 Minutes/ Thai with English Subtitles/
2004 (THAI TITLE: HUAJAI TORANONG)
Release date:
March 2004
Starring : Michael
Shaowanasai, Krissada Terrence, Darunee
Kritboonyalai, Teerawat Tongjitti, Jenjira
Jansuda, Siriyakorn Pukkavessa
Directed by Apichatpong
Weerasethakul & Michael Shaowanasai
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News: Selected for 2004 Berlin Film
Festival
“The Adventure of Iron Pussy” series
are underground video projects portraying a crime-busting
heroine who was once a-go-go boy. He has seen
the unfair treatments of the sex workers during
his years in the business. With the sharp eyes
and the knowledge (he surf the net all day), Iron
Pussy becomes the most wanted heroin who most
likely to save the day and make Bangkok safe for
the tourists who came to support the industry.Iron
Pussy is one of the personas of a Thai performance
artist Michael Shaowanasai, whose works directly
criticize; satirize the Thai sex industry and
the art industry at the same time. The previous
Iron Pussy videos, which contain many direct sexual
expressions, are mainly screened at art exhibitions.
FILMMAKER'S STATEMENT
When I had an opportunity to direct this latest
episode, I proposed to cast Iron Pussy in a popular
film context, through an old Thai film genre,
so worn-out (and deemed cheap) that nobody’s
made it anymore. There are numerous references
to old Thai films of Lavo Studio in the past.
We also dubbed the voice of all actors by the
voice talent veterans of the old Thai film industry.
For me, the fun of making this film is to see
this a-go-go boy trap in the past when sexual
representation is restrained. She is explicit
in her determination to fit in the perfect past.
This conceptual piece aims to add another life
for Iron Pussy. It is the life she cannot have
in contemporary landscape, where she is busy fighting
sex crimes against foreign mafias in Bangkok.
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul
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