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SUMMARY:Rithy Panh at BAMPFA
DESCRIPTION:This fall, BAMPFA is honored to have Rithy Panh present two of his recent films in person. A survivor of\nthe Khmer Rouge’s genocidal regime, Panh has devoted his career to telling the stories of the\nperpetrators and some two million victims who died in extermination prisons and labor camps in\nCambodia between 1975 and 1979. Along with more than two dozen films, Panh’s project has included\nthe creation of the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center, which serves as an archive, training, and\nproduction center to preserve Cambodian cultural heritage and to encourage the next generations of\nstorytellers. Working in both fiction and documentary, Panh uses innovative approaches to address the\nlegacy of trauma in the nation of his birth. In his recent film Irradiated, he expands his field of vision, reflecting on the murderous man-made cataclysms of the twentieth century.\nWriting about Irradiated for IndieWire, David Ehrlich noted that “Panh has long pursued new ways of\nseeing modern history’s most resonant nightmares; he’s always been desperate to reconcile the\nunimaginable with its absent sense of reality, and weaponize past trauma into a deterrent against the\ndevastation to come.” At the end of an article written at the time of Irradiated’s premiere in Berlin, Panh\nreconsidered Theodore Adorno’s assertion that “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” asking “Is\npoetry impossible after Auschwitz? I plead for more poetry, more creativity, more freedom.”\nThe Missing Picture\nSaturday, September 24 at 7:00 PM\nRithy Panh and Khatharya Um in Conversation\nA daunting task that continues to confront media makers is how to represent the unrepresentable—\ncalamities and atrocities of unimaginable magnitude. The challenge is even greater when the media maker himself is a survivor. Such is the case for veteran filmmaker Panh, who has committed his life to probing and exposing the Cambodian genocide and its aftermath. Having toiled in labor camps as a boy and watched his entire family die, he prepares to grapple with this childhood. Using clay figures, archival\nfootage, and live action, Panh materializes the missing pictures for us, his companion witnesses. Stunningly vivid and achingly intimate.\nMore Information Here ( https://bampfa.org/event/missing-picture )\nIrradiated\nSunday, September 25 at 5:30 PM\nRithy Panh and Boreth Ly in Conversation\nWinner of the 2020 Berlinale Documentary Award, Panh’s Irradiated continues his exploration of the\ninhumanity of war and ideologically motivated genocide beyond the borders of his native Cambodia.\nDrawing on the archives of twentieth-century atrocities, Panh literally expands the frame of his project\nusing a cinemascope aspect ratio to present images in triplicate, reframing and juxtaposing images to\nanalyze the accumulated horrors. Accompanied by an off-screen dialogue that evokes Alain Renais’s\nHiroshima mon amour and the on-screen gestures of a butoh dancer, Irradiated requires viewers to bear witness as a bulwark against forgetting and repeating the cataclysms of the past.\nMore Information Here ( https://bampfa.org/event/irradiated )\n
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