A dream caught in the light of a film projector is literally an out-of-body experience that awaits you in this melancholy and hypnotically beautiful Thai film about a cinema's last days. Rit has been a projectionist for 25 years, and when the cinema closes he stays on in the increasingly dilapidated premises. The heavy and humid Asian climate and the suggestions of something supernatural, together with its Buddhist philosophy about decay and transformation, makes 'Phantom of Illumination' an extraordinary film about film.