Rithy Panh in Person

This fall BAMPFA is honored to have Rithy Panh present two of his recent films in person. A survivor of the Khmer Rouge's genocidal regime, Panh has devoted his career to telling the stories of the perpetrators and some two million victims who died in extermination prisons and labor camps in Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. Along with more than two dozen films, Panh's project has included the creation of the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center, which serves as an archive, training, and production center to preserve Cambodian cultural heritage and to encourage the next generations of storytellers. Working in both fiction and documentary, Panh uses innovative approaches to address the legacy of trauma in the nation of his birth. In his recent film Irradiated, he expands his field of vision, reflecting on the murderous man-made cataclysms of the twentieth century.