L'image manquante (The Missing Picture)
(Rithy Panh, 2013, 92 min, Cambodia, France, in French with English subtitles, Color, Blu-Ray)

-- Introduced by Prof. Anne-Gaëlle Saliot (Romance Studies)!

From the time when the Khmer Rouge ruled over Cambodia between 1975 and 1979, the only recorded artifacts that remain are propaganda footage. Director Rithy Panh uses beautifully detailed sculpted clay figurines and elaborate dioramas intercut with archival footage to recreate the missing images from his memory. His recollections of his family and friends before and after the regime's rule are poignantly told through a narrator's poetic voice. From start to finish, The Missing Picture is a unique documentary that manages to capture a historical moment that otherwise never would have been told.

Cost: Free and Open to the Public

Sponsors: The Center for French and Francophone Studies, the Program in the Arts of the Moving Image (AMI) and the Department of Romance Studies. Made possible by the FACE Foundation and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy.