THE MISSING PICTURE
by Rithy Panh
synopsis
For many years, I have been looking for the missing picture: a photograph taken between 1975 and 1979 by the Khmer Rouge when they ruled over Cambodia...On its own, of course, an image cannot prove mass murder, but it gives us cause for thought, prompts us to meditate, to record History. I searched for it vainly in the archives, in old papers, in the country villages of Cambodia. Today I know: this image must be missing. I was not really looking for it; would it not be obscene and insignificant? So I created it. What I give you today is neither the picture nor the search for a unique image, but the picture of a quest: the quest that cinema allows.
international title: | The Missing Picture |
original title: | L'image manquante |
country: | Cambodia, France |
sales agent: | Playtime |
year: | 2013 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Rithy Panh |
film run: | 95' |
release date: | UK 03/01/2014, NL 27/03/2014 |
screenplay: | Rithy Panh |
cinematography by: | Prum Messa, Rithy Panh |
film editing: | Rithy Panh, Marie-Christine Rougerie |
production: | CDP - Catherine Dussart Productions |
distributor: | New Wave Films, Contact Film Cinematheek, Movies Inspired, Abordar Casa de Películas |