Name: Spotlight on Cambodian Film Makers - Part 2
Start: 2022-07-23T15:30:00+09:30
End: 2022-07-23T17:30:00+09:30
Location: Mercury Cinema

Spotlight on Cambodian Film Makers - Part 2

Located in Adelaide’s iconic Lion Arts Centre precinct, Adelaide Contemporary Experimental (ACE) is South Australia’s leading independent contemporary visual arts organisation, proudly supporting artists to develop and present work on Kaurna Yarta (Kaurna Country).

Adelaide Contemporary Experimental

A screening program centred around works that inspired Skin Shade Night Day.

Mercury Cinema

Curated by Allison Chhorn and presented as part of Skin Shade Night Day, this screening program centres around works that inspired her exhibition, spotlighting Cambodian film-makers whose works, like Chhorn, explore themes of memory, family and the legacy of cultural trauma.The screening program is a continuation of Allison’s ongoing research project into artists of the Cambodian diaspora, <a href="https://www.artistsofcambodiandiaspora.com/" target="_blank" data-msys-clicktrack="0" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer">Artists of Cambodian Diaspora.</a>“These Cambodian film-makers share a responsibility that resonates very closely to my own practice — responding to current ways of living that are in danger of being lost while also recognising their inevitable end by capturing their memory” – Allison Chhorn.The Rice PeopleDirector: Rithy PanhCambodia, 1994, 125 minKhmer with English subtitlesSynopsis: A remarkable debut feature film from Cambodia’s most internationally celebrated film-maker Rithy Panh, The Rice People chronicles a few critical months in the life of a peasant farming family struggling to eke out a living in a deeply scarred, post-Khmer Rouge society. Adapted from a novel by Shahnon Ahmad, The Rice People was the first Cambodian film (co-produced with France and Germany) to be nominated for a Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival, in 1994.

Images: The Rice People (1994), film stills. Courtesy Rithy Panh.

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