Impact Exhibition at Bophana Center - Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Impact Exhibition - Artwork about Landmines in Cambodia.
Acts of Memory : Series of interviews displayed during the exhibition entitled TRANSMISSION 2015
1. Interview with Dr. Keo Narom, Royal Academy of Cambodia.
2. Interview with Prof. In Vanna, Secondary school of Fine arts.
3. Interview with Prof. Prom Sisophantha, Royal University of Phnom Penh.
4. Interview with Prof. Keo Sonan Kavei, Faculty of Music of the Royal University of Fine Arts.
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Bophana: Shadow and Light
This video depicts the work of Bophana Centre. The mission of the center is to collect, safeguard and promote the audiovisual archives about Cambodia. The center presents its collected archives to public via its database in the center and itinerant screening program throughout provinces of Cambodia.
Director: Guillaume P.Soun
Date: 2010
Producer: Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center
2011 Rithy Panh: The Bophana Centre and Khmer memories
2011 - INTERNATIONAL COLLOQUIUM ON CAMBODIA in Montreal
Cambodia from then to now: memory and plural identities in the aftermath of genocide (May 5th, 6th and 7th, 2011)
WHAT
This bilingual (French/English) colloquium aims to foster a deeper understanding of the various ways the Khmer Rouge genocide has shaped Khmer identity, both in Cambodia and in the diaspora. This event will be a rare opportunity to explore Cambodian history and the life stories of Cambodian Montrealers through the testimonies, lectures, films and theatre extracts that have emerged from the Montreal Life Stories project over the last 4 years.
WHO
The colloquium is being organised by the Group Cambodia, made up of members of the Communauté Angkorienne du Canada, the Majjhimaram Pagoda, and the University-Community Research Alliance (CURA)/ Life Stories of Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide and other Human Rights Violations
How to Download App on Khmer Rouge History
How to Download App on Khmer Rouge History
Love Story Amidst the Khmer Rouge's Genocide | Bophana - Flower of Dangerous Love |
Love Story of The Cambodian Genocide | Bophana - Flower of Dangerous Love |
Four decades later, victims of the Cambodian Genocide remains. Only in recent years where Khmer Rouge cadres were trialed for war crimes.
The Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum is now a museum depicting the past atrocities of the Cambodian Genocide. The museum was the former S-21 camp, arguably the most infamous prison camp during the rule of Pol Pot.
An estimated 20,000 people were imprisoned in the S-21 camp, of which, the one with the thickest interrogation file comes from one woman named after a flower, Bophana.
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In the Khmer language, Bophana means flower. Bophana has a legacy in the Bophana Center, an audiovisual center located in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, dedicated to restoring and protecting Cambodian audiovisual heritage.
Bophana was a 25 year old victim of the Cambodian genocide.
The Cambodian genocide was carried out between 1975 to 1979 under the Khmer Rouge regime of Pol Pot.
Bophana was executed for writing a love letter to her husband.
Here is the story of Bophana, flower of dangerous love.
In 1953, Cambodia gained independence from the French. Cambodia was under the rule of King Norodom Sihanouk until he was ousted in a military coup by Lon Nol in 1970.
Here starts a power struggle between Lon Nol and Pol Pot ending with Lon Nol eventually fleeing to California, USA.
Under Pol Pot’s rule, the Khmer Rouge conducted mass genocide
In which an approximate 1.6 million people died, in which Bophana (image by Dudva) was one of them.
At 16, Bophana was engaged to her lover, Ly Sitha. Due to Lon Nol’s coup, Sitha became a monk to avoid the military draft. In the military coup, Bophana was accused to be a Khmer Rouge spy by Cambodian soldiers.
She was captured and raped by the Cambodian soldiers and became pregnant as a result. She attempted suicide, but was saved by doctors giving birth to a son in 1971.
In 1975, when Phnom Penh fell to the Khmer Rouge, Bophana, as a literate, was captured and forced into hard labour in the fields.
That was where she met a Khmer Rouge official named Deth. It was Sitha. Sitha is now a Khmer Rouge official known as Comrade Deth. Sitha had used his position to locate Bophana and they got married.
In 1975, family, love and personal life were banned during times of revolution.
They sent each other love letters in secret, with Bophana signing off as Flower of Dangerous Love.
Eventually, they were exposed and both were captured due to their literacy in multiple languages as well as putting love before the revolution.
Sitha was executed while Bophana was tortured and interrogated for several months. Eventually, Bophana confessed to be a CIA agent.
On her confession pages, she signed off as Sedadeth, meaning, “Seda of Deth” as a last act of defiance and her love with Sitha.
Bophana’s interrogation file was one of the thickest and most complete file to come out of S-21, the torture prison used by the
Khmer Rouge.
Years later, S-21’s camp commandant, Kang Kew Lew (image by Extraordinary Chambers in the Courts of Cambodia), said this with regard to Bophana, “If you run into Bophana’s uncle, please ask him to forgive me. I feel sorry for that man—I did him harm. I’m the one responsible. And if you see her husband’s mother, tell her that Duch acknowledges the wrong he did.”
Bophana was eventually executed and thrown into the mass graves of Choeung Ek on March 18, 1977.
Bophana Center was named after Bophana and opened by film maker Rithy Panh, himself a Khmer Rouge survivor. On top of the Bophana Center, Rithy Panh made the film Bophana: A Cambodian Tragedy.
Recommeded Videos (Warning: Some videos are quite graphical)
1) Death Of A Nation: The Khmer Rouge's Cambodia
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2) Cambodian Genocide - Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge
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3) Behind the walls of S-21
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4) Summary of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia 1975-1979 -- Video Essay
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Voices of Khmer Rouge: Interview 1
Voices of Khmer Rouge is an audiovisual arts works by two Danish artists Mr. Thomas Weber Carlsen and Jan Krogsgaard. With an assistant of a former Khmer Rouge soldier known as Mr. Kham, the two artists conducted the interviews with the thirty ordinary former Khmer Rouge soldiers and low-ranking cadres in field in 2002 and 2003.
Through their personal testimonies, the Voices of Khmer Rouge offers you the understanding of their secrets, their memories and their true lives before, feeling, action, experiences during the 33-year-long and after the civil wars in Cambodia.
Production date: 2002-2003
Director: Jan Krogsgaard and Mr. Thomas Weber Carlsen
Supported by : Center for Kulturog Udvikling (CKU) and Danish Center for Culture and Development (DCCD)
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Kim Hak, a Cambodian Photographer
Produced for Photo Phnom Penh Association
ចង់ដឹងទេថា អ្វីជំរុញចិត្តសម្រាប់សិល្បករថតរូប គឹម ហាក់ ក្នុងការចាប់អាជីពនេះ។ សូមទស្សនាវីដេអូខ្លីនេះ ហើយកុំភ្លេចណាត្រៀមទាំងអស់គ្នាដើម្បីជួបជាមួយនឹងលោកគឹម ហាក់ ដែលនឹងបង្ហាញអំពីរូបថតក្រោមចំនងជើង «ទុកចោល» ជាអនុស្សាវរីយ៍ចុងក្រោយនៃអគារប៊ុលឌីញ នៅថ្ងៃទី១៥ខែវិច្ឆិកា ខាងមុខនេះ នៅមជ្ឍមណ្ឌលបុប្ផាណា វេលាម៉ោង៦រសៀល ដល់ម៉ោង ៨ល្ងាច។
Do you know what inspired Kim Hak to become a photographer? Let's here him from this video and learn more about him and his work at Kim Hak's photography talk on his new project Left Behind the series of memory from White Building is coming soon. See you on 15 November at Bophana Center, 6-8pm.
ស្នាដៃរបស់លោកត្រូវបានដាក់តាំងបង្ហាញក្នុងមហោស្រពរូបថតភ្នំពេញ២០១៧ នៅក្នុងមជ្ឍមណ្ឌលបុប្ផាណាចាប់ពីថ្ងៃទី២១ តុលា ដល់ថ្ងៃទី២១ វិច្ឆិកា ឆ្នាំ២០១៧។ Kim Hak's artwork is exhibited as part of Photo Phnom Penh Festival 2017 at Bophana Center from 21-October to 21 November 2017.
Voices of Khmer Rouge: Interview 2
Voices of Khmer Rouge is an audiovisual arts works by two Danish artists Mr. Thomas Weber Carlsen and Jan Krogsgaard. With an assistant of a former Khmer Rouge soldier known as Mr. Kham, the two artists conducted the interviews with the thirty ordinary former Khmer Rouge soldiers and low-ranking cadres in field in 2002 and 2003.
Through their personal testimonies, the Voices of Khmer Rouge offers you the understanding of their secrets, their memories and their true lives before, feeling, action, experiences during the 33-year-long and after the civil wars in Cambodia.
Production date: 2002-2003
Director: Jan Krogsgaard and Mr. Thomas Weber Carlsen
Supported by : Center for Kulturog Udvikling (CKU) and Danish Center for Culture and Development (DCCD)
Rare Khmer Rouge Photos Find Permanent Home (Cambodia news in Khmer)
Rare photos taken by American journalist Elizabeth Becker are now on display in Phnom Penh. The photographs, which depict life under the Khmer Rouge from a trip Becker took in 1978, will be housed permanently at the Bophana Center in the center of the capital. I wanted an institution in Cambodia to have these copies for history, says Becker, who covered the war in Cambodia for the Washington Post and authorted When the War Was Over. (Say Mony, interviewing journalist in Phnom Penh, covering exhibition.)
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Annâdya
Designed to the promote approate technology for smallholders to increase food security among Indigenous peoples, the project has been named in short Annâdya, which means in Sanskrit meansthe Happiness to eat enough food. Annâdya focus on the agricultural and productivity, the improvement of beneficiaries' nutrition and the development of sustainable grass-roots institutions. It is carried out in about 64 village and aims to benefit to 10,000 vulnerable Cambodian rural households. Annâdya project started on the 1th of February 2012 for a 3 years duration. It's implemented by University Libre De Bruxelles (Belgium) and CEDAC NGO in Ratanakiri province.
Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center - One Dollar
One Dollar
Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center
Cambodia
Suggested by Heman Chong
About
Anchored in Cambodia, One Dollar is a worldwide grassroots movement giving a voice to those at the bottom of the pyramid. Together, 5 to 7-minute testimonies from all continents will create a mosaic depicting the world as we are approaching the milestone of the 2015 Millennium Development Goals. These stories, seldom seen in mainstream media, will have the opportunity of reaching a broader public, thanks to the help of emerging local filmmakers and the One Dollar platform.
The Bophana Center believes that the Internet and participatory media are fantastic vehicles for global awareness and social change. One Dollar engages citizens beyond national and social divisions, relying on the unique potential of a generation passionate about new media and audiovisual creation. Filmmakers and multimedia enthusiasts are invited to submit One Dollar portraits of people in their community, village or town, thereby echoing the situation described in our pilot portrait: Minister of Papaya.
Who is the Bophana Center
Founded by filmmaker Rithy Panh, the Bophana Center collects image and sound archives related to Cambodia and gives the general public free access to this unique heritage.
Visiting the Khmer Rouge with Caldwell
Elizabeth Becker
Malcolm Caldwell died in Cambodia
The Things They Carried (Live in Phnom Penh)
Performed live at Jolona Jongjam, a program of Acts of Memory, produced by Cambodian Living Arts and Bophana Audiovisual Center and in conjunction with Season of Cambodia.
Created in commemoration of the 40th anniversary of the fall of Phnom Penh to the devastating Khmer Rouge regime, The Things They Carried is a universal story of friendship, loss, and forgiveness, and follows three friends before, during, and after the struggle.
The piece was choreographed by Gillian Rhodes and danced by Sophal Sor, Sang Thorn Chek, and Peaktra Phon.
Music -- Drakkar Band, Niko, and Philip Glass.
Video credit to Cambodian Living Arts and Bophana.
Voices of Khmer Rouge Trailer, Part 1_by Jan Krogsgaard & Thomas Weber Carlsen
This trailer (one out of two) is made available on You Tube to, on distance, serve the press and other interested, in connection with the 43 hour long media installation and memory document Voices of Khmer Rouge exhibition at Bophana Audiovisual Research Center, opening 4 March 2011, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. and in Beijing at AustroSinoArtProgram's exhibition during October/November 2011.
The 30 minutes are uploaded to give an idea about the style.
The 30 minutes are just close to 1% of the projects running time, and the stories in the trailer are as such not representative for the entire content of Voices of Khmer Rouge.
Voices of Khmer Rouge is a media art work and a memory document, by Jan Krogsgaard & Thomas Weber Carlsen, where 30 former low ranking Khmer Rouge soldiers tell about their personal life experiences during the Cambodian civil war: their upbringing, actions, battles, thoughts, believes, feelings, secrets, ideologies, human values and life today.
The installation consist of 30 monitors, one for each storyteller.
For more information, getting access to the entire work, or purchasing:
Bophana contacts:
Bophana general email: communication@bophana.org
Website: bophana.org
Or: Voices of Khmer Rouge, email: voicesofkhmerrouge@yahoo.dk
A Lecture of Khmer Architecture After Independence, part 1
Bophana Center is started a special lecture to celebrate the 61 th anniversary of Cambodia's Independence.The video includes two sessions of lecture by M. Khoun Khun Neay and Mrs.So Sokuntheary about Khmer Architecture.