Kon Khmer Koun Khmer opening Festivals
Tuesday, November 03, 2009
Phnom Penh: In behalf of the team Kon Khmer Koun Khmer, I would like to thank you for your presence and your support during these 9 days of exhibition and festival at the Chinese House.
The figures have exceeded all our expectations: around 300 people for the opening, more than 1000 people in total for the screenings - with a large part of Cambodian audience - and more than 500 people at the Closing Party.
You will find attached a selection of media articles and photos from the event, and at the end of this email some reviews from the Internet, locally and internationally, including the first 60s and 70s Cambodian film critics by Dr. Tilman Baumgärtel on his blog Southeast Asian Film Studies Institute.
We hope that we will be able to organize another festival next year with other films, as many enthusiastic people asked us for. And we hope also that this new interest will go on with new projects in the next few months.
I remind you that the artworks of the exhibition are on sale. Please contact us to get the price list if you are interested.
But Golden Reawakening is not yet ended! The first exhibition is followed by a photo and drawing exhibition at Sasa Gallery from November 6th to 18th.
We show the entire series of the 30 locations where were located the movie theatre in the 70s in Phnom Penh. Photographer group Stiev Selepak (Art Rebels) took the pictures of these 30 former popular places, trying to find the best angle and aesthetic to make the audience imagine how it could have looked like.
We show old pictures of these theatres from the 70s, and pictures from French photographer Stéphane Janin taken in the early 90s of some surviving theatres at that time.
For some important theatres, when the original photo is missing, a drawing tries to figure out a possible representation of the theatre in the 70s. Drawings are made by artists from Reyum Art School, Royal University of Phnom Penh, Stiev Selepak.
Opening on Friday November the 6th at 6pm at Sasa Gallery, 7 Street 360 near Baitong Restaurant.
