Description: The essays in this groundbreaking collection examine how celebrated Cambodian director Rithy Panh counters the abstraction of mass violence with a cinema anchored in the body, the physical trace, the direct testimony, and the living landscape. They explore his unique aesthetic sensibility, examining the dynamic and sensuous images through which he suggests that "everything has a soul."
Review Quotes: "In this brilliant volume, sixteen scholars explore camera, voice, memory and witness in Rithy Panh's extraordinary cinema. Frame by frame, their essays reveal Panh as a global director, and Cambodia's most gifted chronicler."
--Penny Edwards "author of Cambodge: The cultivation of a nation 1860-1945"