TONITE: FINISSAGE OF TIM PAGE EXHIBITION @ META, 6PM
Dear Friends of Meta House!Tonite we are showing the excellent works of English legendary combat
photographer Tim Page for the last night @ Meta House, from 6PM. Please give
Tim and us the honor of your attendance. All photos are for sale. Tim bill
be present to sign books and to answer questions.
Screenings of documentaries about Tim's work in Vietnam and those of his
famous colleagues start around 7PM on our rooftop - although the festivities
for the 7th of January commeration day at Wat Botum might force us to start
a little bit later.
This is the META HOUSE film program for the coming days - brilliant
documentaries that deal with the KR legacy and how society or individuals
coper with it. Films start around 7PM, MH opens at 6PM.
Please be our guest. (Srey Bandol's PREAH VIHEAR exhibition is also on
display until the 10th Jan.)
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THUR, 08/01: DEATH & REBIRTH
A highly interesting selection of short docs about Pol Pot's reign of terror
is followed by KAMPUCHEA: DEATH AND REBIRTH" (8PM): The first documentary
after the end of the KR period, shot by famous GDR filmmakers
Heymowski/Scheumann in 1979.
FRI, 09/01: TERROR'S ADVOCATE
Jacques Vergès is a French lawyer noted for defending unpopular figures such
as KR leader Khieu Samphan at the ECCC. Verges was married to anti-French
Algerian guerrilla Djamila Bouhired, whose story is depicted in THE BATTLE
OF ALGIERS (6PM). The screening is followed by Barbet Schroeder's
documentary TERROR'S ADVOCATE (8.30PM) on Jaques Verges.
SAT, 10/01 UXO NIGHT
Despite progress since the signing of the Mine Ban Treaty 11 years ago,
victims of mines and explosive remnants of war (ERW) - including cluster
munitions - still lack the assistance they need. We start our program after
6PM with a selection of short docs from Cambodian "Equity TV" and Australian
filmmaker Ian White, who traveled up the Ho Chi Minh trail (UXO IN LAOS).
Screenings are presented by Alex Hiniker (UNDP). BOMBHUNTERS" (8PM) is a
brilliant doc film, that profiles Cambodian villagers who search for and
dismantle bombs.
SUN, 11/01 NEW YEAR BABY
On Christmas Day a few years ago in Dallas, Texas, Socheata Poeuv's parents
called a family meeting to tell her that her sisters weren't really her
sisters, and her brother was not her full brother. After 25 years of
attempting to live a "normal American life," her parents revealed a shocking
family secret that would draw them all back to Cambodia. (7 PM in Khmer
language, 8PM in English)
posted by Jinja @ 2:57 PM
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