Irradiations of Violence: Interview with Rithy Panh

Rithy Panh; Anne-Laure Porée; Stéphanie Benzaquen-Gautier

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Chapter 15 Irradiations of Violence

Interview with Rithy Panh

In: Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

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Pages:: 260–273

DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004536890_017

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Rithy Panh’s documentary film S-21, the Khmer Rouge Killing Machine (2002), which brought together survivors and former guards, is considered as a turning point in both the study of S-21 and the representation of the Cambodian genocide. In this chapter, based on several interviews conducted between 2019 and 2022, Panh revisits his twenty-year-long working process in relation to Tuol Sleng. He talks about the importance of feeling, bodily memory, and trauma, and their key role in his cinema. Pointing to the question of epigenetics, he elaborates further on the physical and visceral transmission of trauma, and what it implies for his work of reading traces of extreme violence and what he calls ‘fossil remains’. He reflects on the human dimension of the Khmer Rouge crimes, which he addresses through his obsession for gestures, corporeal memory, and words. He also discusses the judicial experience at the Khmer Rouge Tribunal (ECCC). Lastly, he examines the role of Tuol Sleng in the formation of collective memory as well as the impact of education on Cambodian society, and then opens up new perspectives regarding the production of knowledge about genocide in Cambodia.

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Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum

A Multifaceted History of Khmer Rouge Crimes

Series: Brill's Southeast Asian Library, Volume: 13

E-Book ISBN:: 9789004536890

Publisher:: Brill

Print Publication Date:: 09 Apr 2024

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