Opening on Friday March 4, 2011 at 6:30 pm
Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center
The 43 hours long audiovisual memory document/art-installation "Voices of Khmer Rouge" consist of 30 human stories, shown on 30 monitors, where 30 former ordinary Khmer Rouge soldiers tell about their personal life experiences during the war in Cambodia: their upbringing, actions, battles, thoughts, believes, feelings, secrets, ideologies and human values.
Thomas Weber Carlsen is Danish and holds a Bachelor degree in Art History and a Masters degree in Architecture and Industrial Design. His work includes the video documentary "Anger of the Spirits" (2002), featuring the Tampuan people in their plight between animism and globalization. He has been living and working in Cambodia since 1995.
Jan Krogsgaard is a Danish filmmaker and co-director of the Oscar nominated, and multi award winning, movie "Burma VJ", a movie on undercover journalism in Burma, with the large demonstrations in Rangoon 2007 September, and the Burmese regimes bloody crackdown of the demonstrations, as the setting of the story. Jan has worked for almost two decades with video and film as art.
In the press conference the authors and the organisers will be present at 5:30 pm, March 4, 2011 at Bophana Center
This exhibition is organized by the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center in cooperation with the GIZ
