Rithy Panh in Person

September 24–25, 2022

This fall BAMPFA is honored to have Rithy Panh present two of his recent films in person, his haunting and personal investigation into the Cambodian genocide, The Missing Picture, and Irradiated, an exploration of the man made cataclysms and atrocities of the twentieth century.

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Irradiated
- Sunday, September 25 3:30 PM
Rithy Panh
France, Cambodia, 2020
North American Premiere

Winner of the 2020 Berlinale Documentary Award, Panh’s Irradiated continues his exploration of the inhumanity of war and ideologically motivated genocide beyond the borders of his native Cambodia.

Rithy Panh and Boreth Ly in Conversation
The Missing Picture
- Saturday, September 24 7 PM
Rithy Panh
Cambodia, France, 2013
Renowned Cambodian filmmaker Panh’s haunting, powerful, and personal investigation into the Cambodian genocide.

Rithy Panh and Khatharya Um in Conversation

Rithy Panh in Person

September 24–25, 2022

This fall BAMPFA is honored to have Rithy Panh present two of his recent films in person. A survivor of the Khmer Rouge’s genocidal regime, Panh has devoted his career to telling the stories of the perpetrators and some two million victims who died in extermination prisons and labor camps in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. Along with more than two dozen films, Panh’s project has included the creation of the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center, which serves as an archive, training, and production center to preserve Cambodian cultural heritage and to encourage the next generations of storytellers. Working in both fiction and documentary, Panh uses innovative approaches to address the legacy of trauma in the nation of his birth. In his recent film Irradiated, he expands his field of vision, reflecting on the murderous man-made cataclysms of the twentieth century.

Writing about Irradiated for IndieWire, David...

Writing about Irradiated for IndieWire, David Ehrlich noted that “Panh has long pursued new ways of seeing modern history’s most resonant nightmares; he’s always been desperate to reconcile the unimaginable with its absent sense of reality, and weaponize past trauma into a deterrent against the devastation to come.” At the end of an article written at the time of Irradiated’s premiere in Berlin, Panh reconsidered Theodore Adorno’s assertion that “to write poetry after Auschwitz is barbaric,” asking “Is poetry impossible after Auschwitz? I plead for more poetry, more creativity, more freedom.”

—Kate MacKay, Associate Film Curator

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Thanks to Marcus Hu, Strand Releasing; Penny Edwards, Department of South & Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley; Natalia Brizuela, International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs; Sarah Maxim, Center for Southeast Asia Studies; Adeline Monzier, Unifrance.

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