A week without blogging
Next week will be either a wonderful experience or a nightmare, or a combination of both! An adventure trip to Mondulkiri sounds great, on paper, but doing it on a bicycle will stretch my endurance to the limit, especially as I have a groin strain from doing too much cycling in prep for the trip! I'm expecting countless hours of challenging off-road cycling, negotiating strength-sapping sandy trails, rocky hilltops and river crossings, and being hours from civilization in the dry forests of Mondulkiri will mean that I will not be online to blog, or read my emails, for most of next week. Tigers, leopards, elephants, and many other species of large animals like wild buffalo, gaur, banteng, Eld's deer, other cats and rare birds are on my long tick-list though with sweat pouring into my eyes I'll doubt that I'll see anything at all! Fingers-crossed.
Whilst I'm away I will miss a feast of films being shown at Meta House on Street 264 (near Wat Botum) as part of the CineMekong film festival. However last night I caught Nice Hat by David Brisbin and Ian White's Straight Refugeez. Two very different films - the former a fun look at Cambodia through the headwear of its people, the latter an insight into the convicted returnees from America. Tonight I will fit in 4 more films on the revival on Khmer arts. The session kicks-off at 7pm and will include John Bishop's Seasons of Migration. I did invite one of my friends, Sam Savin, who was one of the lead dancers in this contemporary dance piece but she's ill at the moment. Also showing tonight will be The Battle to Rebuild Sbaek Thom, A Reflection on Cambodian Contemporary Art and The Phnom Penh Video Art Project.
Out of the whole festival, which is also playing at the French Cultural Center and other locations, I really wanted to see Monday night's films, Kampuchea: Death and Rebirth and The Flute Player. The 80-minute Kampuchea film was made in the spring of 1979 as an East German film team filmed the first scenes after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. I expect it to be very moving. The Flute Player is the story of Arn Chorn-Pond, who has done a fantastic job in founding Cambodian Living Arts. I've met the inspirational Arn but I still haven't seen the documentary about him by Jocelyn Glatzer. A variety of films about Cambodia will be shown every night next week, so get along to Meta House and take a look for yourself.
Just back home from Meta House and particularly the Seasons of Migration film. It was great to see my friend Savin performing the traditional-cum-contemporary dance piece; she's closest to the camera on the left-hand side of the picture below, just a real shame she couldn't see the film tonight as she's not well. It was filmed in 2005 when Savin and the dance troupe were touring the United States.
Sam Savin, classical dancer, front on left-hand side
Whilst I'm away I will miss a feast of films being shown at Meta House on Street 264 (near Wat Botum) as part of the CineMekong film festival. However last night I caught Nice Hat by David Brisbin and Ian White's Straight Refugeez. Two very different films - the former a fun look at Cambodia through the headwear of its people, the latter an insight into the convicted returnees from America. Tonight I will fit in 4 more films on the revival on Khmer arts. The session kicks-off at 7pm and will include John Bishop's Seasons of Migration. I did invite one of my friends, Sam Savin, who was one of the lead dancers in this contemporary dance piece but she's ill at the moment. Also showing tonight will be The Battle to Rebuild Sbaek Thom, A Reflection on Cambodian Contemporary Art and The Phnom Penh Video Art Project.
Out of the whole festival, which is also playing at the French Cultural Center and other locations, I really wanted to see Monday night's films, Kampuchea: Death and Rebirth and The Flute Player. The 80-minute Kampuchea film was made in the spring of 1979 as an East German film team filmed the first scenes after the fall of the Khmer Rouge regime. I expect it to be very moving. The Flute Player is the story of Arn Chorn-Pond, who has done a fantastic job in founding Cambodian Living Arts. I've met the inspirational Arn but I still haven't seen the documentary about him by Jocelyn Glatzer. A variety of films about Cambodia will be shown every night next week, so get along to Meta House and take a look for yourself.
Just back home from Meta House and particularly the Seasons of Migration film. It was great to see my friend Savin performing the traditional-cum-contemporary dance piece; she's closest to the camera on the left-hand side of the picture below, just a real shame she couldn't see the film tonight as she's not well. It was filmed in 2005 when Savin and the dance troupe were touring the United States.
Sam Savin, classical dancer, front on left-hand side
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