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Rithy Panh was born in the capital city of Phnom Penh in 1964. His father was a civil servant who worked for the Ministry of Education. Perhaps it was due to their affiliation with the government that his family was among those targeted for \u201cre-education\u201d when the Khmer Rouge came into Phnom Penh in 1975. As a young boy in the camps, he witnessed his family perish one by one due to starvation or exhaustion. He found his chance to escape during the Vietnamese invasion in 1980 when the Khmer Rouge lost control of the country. He lived at a refugee camp in Thailand for a year before being resettled in France in 1980.<\/p>\n

In France, he refused to return to his home country for ten years, and had even stopped speaking his mother tongue. Attempting to live a \u2018normal\u2019 life, he went to a vocational school to study carpentry. While at school, he was handed a video camera during a social event, prompting him to becom einterested in filmmaking. He was accepted into the highly-competitive Institut des Hautes <\/em>\u00c9tudes Cin\u00e9matographiques <\/em>(Institute for Advanced Cinematographic Studies) in Paris. His first film, “Site 2,” brought him back to the Cambodian refugee camps in Thailand. Site 2<\/em> became a formative film from him, and from then on he decided to bear testimony to the Cambodian people through the use of documentary practices that \u201cbuilt on the gathering of witnesses,\u201d as noted by Sylvie Blum-Reid in her essay about him.[*]<\/a><\/p>\n

Through the years, his many critically-acclaimed films dealt with this drive to confront the ghosts of Cambodia\u2019s past and perhaps initiate the healing of collective memory.\u00a0 In his 2012 memoir, Panh says that \u201cMemory must remain a reference point\u2026 What I\u2019m looking for is comprehension. I want to understand the nature of the crime, not to establish a cult of memory.\u201d In his 2013 documentary \u201cThe Missing Picture<\/a>,\u201d he attempts to do just that, by recollecting his own childhood and his family as they were being swept into the Khmer Rouge\u2019s regime of terror. \u201cThe Missing Picture\u201d will be screening at the Henry Art Gallery on Thursday 7 December, 6:30-8:30 pm. Pre-register at www.henryart.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Rithy Panh also produced \u201cFirst They Killed My Father<\/a>,\u201d directed by Angelina Jolie and based on the memoir of Cambodian-American writer and activist, Loung Ung. While Ung, like Rithy Panh, also longs for a peaceful Cambodia, this doesn\u2019t mean simply forgetting and moving on. She says that \u201cA peaceful Cambodia is a Cambodia where people can learn from their own history. Where people are connected to each other and people can be heard and seen and have the opportunities to grow their life and their country and their talents and skills.\u201d \u201cFirst They Killed My Father\u201d will be screening at Mt. Baker Village Apartments on Wednesday 6 December, 3:30-6:30pm. Pre-register with Sameth Mell at \u00a0sameth@mtbakerhousing.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

During the week, there will also be a video installation<\/a> at the Research Commons lobby at the Allen Library. It will utilize archival materials from journalist Elizabeth Becker<\/a>\u2019s visit to Democratic Kampuchea. Becker was one of the last group of Western journalists to be allowed to visit Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge occupation, and the photographs she took are invaluable historical records that she graciously donated to the UW Library System.<\/p>\n

We hope that you are able to join us for these film screenings and discussions with Rithy Panh. All events are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n

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[*]<\/a> Blum-Reid, Sylvie E. (2003) \u201cKhmer memories or filming with Cambodia\u201d, in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies<\/em>,\u00a04: 1, 126 \u2014 138<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rithy Panh was born in the capital city of Phnom Penh in 1964. His father was a civil servant who worked for the Ministry of Education. Perhaps it was due to their affiliation with the government that his family was among those targeted for \u201cre-education\u201d when the Khmer Rouge came into Phnom Penh in 1975.<\/p>\n

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