Rithy Panh: Irradiés – Irradiated
“Is poetry impossible after Auschwitz? I plead for more poetry, more creativity, more freedom …”
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Rithy Panh (b. 1964, Cambodia) is a filmmaker, writer and producer. He has directed numerous internationally acclaimed films, including Rice People, The Land of Wandering Souls (2000), and the influential S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2004). In 2013 Panh directed The Missing Picture, which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and won the Grand Prix in the “Un Certain Regard” section at the Cannes Film Festival. He is a co-founder of the Bophana Center in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, which is dedicated to preserving audiovisual heritage.
As part of the of the symposium “Goodbye Photomontage?”
Artist’s statement from “Panel III: Construction – Images of Terror and Atrocities: When Images Become Weapons”