dear friends

please join the exhibition opening
ACCUMULATIONS
new work by four former Reyum Art School artists
Chan Dany, Phe Sophon, Peouv Sam-An, Than Sok.

French Cultural Center Gallery
Phnom Penh

7pm
Thursday 15 October

hope to see you!

Erin Gleeson

Kon Khmer Koun Khmer

Press Release

October 11th, 2009

Phnom Penh

Contact: CHAN Soratha

012 726 117 chan...@gmail.com

www.konkhmerkounkhmer.blogspot.com

60s & 70s Cambodian film festival and exhibition “Golden Reawakening”

From October 17th to October 25th, 2009 at the Chinese House

The team of Kon Khmer Koun Khmer (Cambodian Films, Cambodian Generation) is pleased to invite you to the opening of the 1960s and 1970s Cambodian film festival and exhibition “Golden Reawakening”.

From 1960 to 1975, Cambodian film studios produced more than 350 films and there were about 30 movie theatres in Phnom Penh. Today, only 33 films remain available. Lux Theatre is the last surviving movie theatre. Only a few directors and film stars survived the Khmer Rouge Regime.

This event will introduce from October 17th to October 25th this golden era of Cambodian films through biographies, photos and posters of the greatest actors, filmmakers and films. This special event serves as a link between generations and brings together a number of surviving directors and film stars from 1960 to 1975 with many talented young artists from today’s art scene. More than 20 Cambodian artists have created paintings, photographs, drawings and an architectural model based on fragmented memories and limited documentation.

During the festival, 11 films from this golden period will be screened with commentaries from legendary filmmakers Ly Bun Yim, Yvon Hem and Ly You Sreang and the legendary film star Dy Saveth. The organizers are honored to receive permission from HM King-Father Norodom Sihanouk to screen his film “Twilight” (1968) which HM has chosen for the festival. The 11 films include masterpieces “Twelve sisters” by Ly Bun Yim and “The Snake Man” by Tea Lim Koun (who many of us have lost touch with and we have discovered him alive in Canada three weeks ago).

The opening reception will take place on

Saturday, October 17th, 6pm

The Chinese House

45, Sisowath Quay, Phnom Penh

Kon Khmer Koun Khmer recently produced “The Twin Diamonds” screened at Lux cinema earlier this month, and is led by Davy Chou, a young French filmmaker whose grandfather Van Chann was one of the greatest film producers in Cambodia in the 1960s.

The exhibition will open every day at 3:00 PM and the films (free entrance) will be screened at 4:00 PM and 7:00 PM. Special guests Mr. Ly Bun Yim and Mrs. Dy Saveth will attend the opening. A detailed schedule is attached.

Kon Khmer Koun Khmer – 21 Street 136, Phnom Penh – Cambodia – Tel: +855 (0)12 726 117

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You are invited to the Let's Talk USA Health Care Reform Brunch with Guest
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Where: Java Cafe on Sihanouk Blvd. (near Independence Monument)

When: Sunday October 11th, from 10AM-12:30PM.

Savory and Sweet set menu options will be served for $6.50 per person at
the door.

Contact Lillian Diaz at 092-635-253 if you have any questions.

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—– Original Message —–
From: "Nicolaus Mesterharm" <mesterharm@GMX.NET>
To: <META-HOUSE@LISTSERV.DFN.DE>
Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 4:55 PM
Subject: meta after pchum ben – welcome back!

META HOUSE
Street 264, #6 – Sangkat Chaktomuk, Khan Daun Penh,
Phnom Penh, Kingdom of Cambodia
Fixed +855- (0)23 – 224 140, Mobil +855- (0) 12- 607 465
Homepage: www.meta-house.com
email: mesterharm@gmx.net

Dear Friends of Meta House!

Pchum Ben is over and we hope you had a nice holiday.
From this Tuesday on we are screening again films on our rooftop every night
from 7PM.

This week's highlights comprise of

* "KAMPUCHEA: DEATH & REBIRTH"
1st doc film after Khmer Rouge (Tuesday);
* "BARTHORY" history thriller
about the world's greatest murderess (Wednesday);
* "LIVING IN EMERGENCY" must-c-doc film about "Doctors without Borders"
and PAY OR DIE short film about the Cambodian health system (Thursday)
* ARCHITECTURE FILM FESTIVAL as part of Java Arts' Our City project
with films about Vann Molyvann and international colleagues (Fri-Sun)

More infos below.
All the best,
Nico Mesterharm & MH team

*

TUES, 22/09, 7 PM
ONLY AT META HOUSE: "KAMPUCHEA: DEATH AND REBIRTH"
This is the first documentary film (1979, 90min) after the Khmer Rouge, shot
by famous GDR filmmakers Walter Heynowski and Gerhard Scheumann. The scenes
filmed During spring 1979 are part of history: Phnom Penh left to rampant
nature, heaps of skulls and destroyed faces. The reports from the survivors
are moving and
harrowing. Heynowski/Scheumann are rated among the most productive and
best-known GDR documentary makers, and belonged to the few GDR filmmakers
that attracted interest from abroad. Modeling themselves on the tradition of
Soviet film pioneer Dziga Vertov, they perceived documentary films as an
instrument of political intervention. The film is presented by Florianne
Wilde (PhD).

WED, 23/09, 7 PM
"BARTHORY": UNVEILING HISTORY'S GREATEST MURDERESS

Tradition has it that Hungarian Countess Elizabeth Bathory was the greatest
murderess in the history of humankind, as documented by her entry in the
"Guinness Book of Records". She tortured her female victims before killing
them. She bathed in their blood, and tore the flesh from their bodies with
her teeth. But is that really true? In four centuries, no historical
document has been found to reveal what had exactly happened. The plot of
this new Czech/European co-produced feature film by Juraj Jakubisko (2008,
138min) diametrically opposes the established legend, which has inspired
dozens novels as well as a host of songs by heavy metal bands…

THUR, 24/09, 7 PM
WHAT'S UP, DOCS? TWO NEW FILMS ABOUT THE HEALTH SECTOR

"ScreenDocs" and doctors: The Khmer NGO "Women's Agenda for Change" has
produced the advocacy film "PAY OR DIE" (2009, 20 min) which will screen
tonight as a rough cut. Mark Hopkins' LIVING IN EMERGENCY (2008, 93min)
follows members of the Nobel Peace Prize-winning NGO "Medecins Sans
Frontieres" (MSF) on their African missions in Congo and Liberia to provide
emergency medical care under extreme conditions. Amid the chaos each
volunteer must confront the severe challenges of the work and the limits of
their own idealism. This film is a raw and very real depiction of the toll
their work can take on them both personally and professionally.

ARCHITECTURE FILM FESTIVAL

FRI, 25/09, 6 PM
OUR CITY: CONCRETE VISIONS FOR THE NEW CAMBODIA
Initiated in by JavaArts, "Our City" is a collective project that provides
an opportunity to the arts community in Phnom Penh to respond to the rapid
and sometimes reckless development of the city and its impact on its
residents. It functions as a voice of the people to express their thoughts,
rants, dreams, fears and hopes about their city. Meta House is screening a
selection of Cambodian films and documentaries about urban development from
the 1960s, up until now: CAMBODIA 1965 (Propaganda Films from the Palace
Archive); CONCRETE VISIONS by Nico Mesterharm (20min, 2007); LAND FOR SALE
by Nana Yuriko (57min); DEY KRAHORM by Eric Lofting(30min) and UNDP's Equity
TV feature URBANISATION.

SAT, 26/09, 7 PM
"BAUKUNST"
THE WORK OF SUPERSTAR ARCHITECTS
New Khmer Architecture was an architectural movement in Cambodia during the
1950s and 1960s. The style blended elements of the Modern Movement with two
distinctly Cambodian traditions: the grand tradition of Angkor, and the
vernacular tradition of ordinary people's houses. The "Baukunst" TV series
by Richard Copans and Stan Neumann (France/Germany, 2001) looks at the works
of international superstar architects such as Le Corbusier, who influenced
their Cambodian colleagues. Also screening: short docs about Renzo Piano,
Frank Lloyd Wright, Daniel Liebeskind, Antoni Gaudi, Alvar Alto, Frank
Gehry, Toyo Ito, Kenzo Tanga and Zaha Hadid.

SUN, 27/09, 7 PM
REACHING OUT FOR THE SKIES: "BUILDING THE GHERKIN" High-rises will reshape
Phnom Penh's future skyline. Mirjam von Arx's documentary BUILDING THE
GHERKIN (2005, 90 min) asks: can a single building impact the skyline of a
big city? Just a month after the disastrous attack on the World Trade Center
in New York, the first steel beam of Sir Norman Foster's 40-storey steel and
glass tower is erected in London. Is it the right decision to build a new
iconic tower in the midst of London's financial district? Also screening:
The "architecture opera" MUTATIONS OF MATTER by Carlos Franklin and Roque
Rivas plus PEARL RIVER DELTA – LEAN PLANNING, THIN PATTERNS by French video
artists Gutierrez & Portefaix.