The lost image

The majority of Rithy Panh’s movies focus on the aftermath of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. The Missing Picture offers in 2013, a partially autobiographical approach, accessible to a wide audience. Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to describe the atro...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Renard, Caroline
Format: Online
Language:spa
Published: Centro de Investigaciones y Estudios sobre Cultura y Sociedad 2018
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Online Access:https://revistas.unc.edu.ar/index.php/eticaycine/article/view/22761
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Summary:The majority of Rithy Panh’s movies focus on the aftermath of the genocidal Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia. The Missing Picture offers in 2013, a partially autobiographical approach, accessible to a wide audience. Rithy Panh uses clay figures, archival footage, and his narration to describe the atrocities Cambodia’s Khmer Rouge committed between 1975 and 1979. This movie allows to analyze the question of the construction of the subject facing a traumatic event. In a continuous loop, the narration drives the trauma’s matter from a scene to the other one. Working on the diversity of images leads the trauma in the cinematic material