A closing event of the exhibition " Thai Border Cambodian Refugee Camps" by American Photojournalist Stefan A. Ellis. Stefan was born in 1965 in Washington and passed away in 1996. He worked as a photojournalist in Southeast Asia, Russia and Israel, and in 1991, he established the Phnom Penh photography bureau for Agence France Press. On the occasion of the Exhibition closing, Bophana Center welcomes Stefan's family and friends from the United States. Let us gather for a friendly talk about Stefan's work with his loved ones.

Monday - 6pm

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Forces and Volumes is an almost entirely​​ wordless programme featuring studies of land and sea by outstanding Southeast Asia-based artists. These potent videos by Charles Lim, Nguyen Trinh Thi, Khvay Samnang with Nget Rady, and Taiki Sakpisit, invite us to reflect on the ways in which physical and sovereign forces shape and reshape space, and take lives or reverse fortunes. Yet rather than referencing the territorialising motion of history’s makers, these works instead channel undead forces. They utilise thetactile, gestural and durational capacitiesof video to embody subterraneous currents​​ charged with anteriority and danger. Forces and Volumes is curated by May Adadol Ingawanij, who will be present to moderate a discussion with the artists Nguyen Trinh Thi and Khvay Samnang following the screening.
(Language: Khmer and English)
 

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Let the boat break Its back, Let the junk break Open

Directed by Rithy Panh, 2000, 94min, French version

This film features the meeting in France between Cambodian Bopha, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide, and a Vietnamese man named Mihn, a ‘boat people’ refugee who drives a taxi at night and works as a deliveryman during the day for his uncle’s grocery store.

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