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Rebuilding a Cinema Culture in Cambodia
March 27 @ 7:30 pm - 9:00 pm
Hamilton at The Other Side presents:
Rebuilding a Cinema Culture in Cambodia:
from Golden Age to Decimation to Emerging Art-House Cinema
a talk by Martine Guyot-Bender
professor of French and Francophone Studies
Cambodia’s cinematic history is a tale of extremes, oscillating between the heights of a post independent ‘Golden Age’ and the destruction led by the Khmer Rouge regime.
Today, a prudent social cinema is slower reclaiming its place in Cambodian cultural identity. Not an easy task in an environment where “freedom of expression is still fragile” Professor Guyot-Bender’s work was funded by the Center for Khmer Studies.
Free and open to the public