Flying Morning Glory (on fire)

A hot cooking video at a street market in Thailand. The early color experimental documentary video was called "a perfect video" by the 1985 NYC Documentary Film and Video Festival. Broadcast on PBS and internationally. In the permanent collections of MoMA and the Paley Media Center. Distributed by EAI.org.

4 minutes 1985 Producer/camera/editor Skip Blumberg

Category:

Travel & Events

Tags:

• cooking
• vegetable
• Thailand
• documentary
• experimental
• TV/Film location production
• video
• art
• international studies
• culture.

[Slider388]

@scherfilms hell yeah, I agree. Also, are you high?

[scherfilms]

This video is so perfect in so many ways. It feels real, it is exotic, and it's just the right length. It's got suspense, balls of fire and a cooking lesson to boot. I love the woman on the bike thing who watches the catch and the infectious laugh of the cook at the end. I also really love the way it's shot. Just a pleasure all around. Bravo.

[urbancap]

I love this dish and the theatre is amazing - makes me yearn for Thailand!

[theodosiusng]

MSG totally ruined it for me. Good food doesn't need MSG.

[5Cats]

Perhaps 'greed' was a poor word to choose! I mean we tend to complain bitterly about the smallest things, especially at work. This 'look at life' in another land reminds me how good I really have it! Even if my boss is a jerk, I still have a good job! lolz!

[ConanCnutKicker]

@5Cats there is disgusting amounts of greed in thailand, just like anywhere else. Maybe even more so.

[Frusciantefan77]

@5Cats Because greed doesn't exist anywhere else?

[5Cats]

I saw this way back then and remember it vividly! Simply amazing! How hard this guy works, in an open air kitchen, probably for pennies, puts western greed to shame.

[ncs1981]

reminds me of blade runner!

[ncs1981]

brilliant! this should be a cult classic!!