Weekend viewings

Here' s two viewings worth visiting this weekend if you are in Phnom Penh. On Saturday night the film Bombhunters will get an airing (7pm) at the Meta House on Street 264. Its a film by Skye Fitzgerald that documents the effects of UXO (unexploded ordnance) on the Cambodian people, both within their homeland and in the US, particularly villagers' efforts throughout rural Cambodia as they seek out UXO and attempt to render it safe for sale to the scrap metal industry in order to survive. Read more about the film here. Also on Saturday, an exhibition titled The Holy Faces of Angkor will open at the Cambodian-Japanese Co-operation Center at the Royal University of Phnom Penh, along the airport road. Photos by Japanese freelance snapper Baku Saito, who has been taking pictures of the face towers of Angkor since 1994, will be on show until 31 May. He's produced photographic books on the Bayon and Banteay Chhmar, specializing on recording the enigmatic faces that adorn these temples.

A Bayon face and nun from my own 1998 photo-album