Anti-Archive, a Hothouse for Young Cambodian Film Makers

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Anti-Archive, a Hothouse for Young Cambodian Film Makers

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How Anti-Archive, a young set of filmmakers, is changing the face of Cambodian cinema
Set up in 2014, the company is a veritable hothouse for emerging Cambodian talent, with their work celebrated around the world
By The Hindu -
August 24, 2019

Often, in discussions about Southeast Asian cinema, Cambodia is overlooked, or pauses at the oeuvre of the country’s living master Rithy Panh. Now, Panh’s work is justly celebrated. Having seen his family suffer under the brutal Khmer Rouge in the 1970s, Panh became a well-known chronicler of the regime’s atrocities. Take a look at some of his recent work, his 2013 film The Missing Picture won the Un Certain Regard award at Cannes, and also scored an Oscar nomination. He served as a producer on First They Killed My Father (2017), directed by Angelina Jolie, while Graves Without A Name was Cambodia’s entry to the Oscars last year...

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Young filmmakers train a fresh lens on turbulent Cambodia
Aug. 27, 2019
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia —
When Kavich Neang learned that Cambodian authorities were going to knock down the storied apartment building where he’d been raised and replace it with luxury condos, the young filmmaker’s first thought was to grab a video camera.

“I just wanted to capture what my family and everyone else was feeling,” Neang said. “I had always thought I would shoot a fiction film there. But now I just wanted to have some memory of the place.”

With a borrowed camera, Neang shot for five weeks inside Phnom Penh’s decaying White Building as the wrecking ball loomed in 2017, recording his parents and neighbors as they packed their belongings, pleaded with officials for fair compensation and fretted about an uncertain future in the fast-changing Cambodian capital.

The footage would form Neang’s first feature-length documentary, “Last Night I Saw You Smiling,” which this year won awards at festivals from Rotterdam to Los Angeles. One critic called it “an important film about how to deal with concepts like origin and home in our world.”

It was the latest successful project by Anti-Archive, a small Cambodian production house that is reviving independent cinema in a country where artistic voices have often been sidelined by turbulent politics.

Anti-Archive has produced or co-produced nearly a dozen films since its launch in 2014 by Neang and two other directors, French Cambodian Davy Chou and Taiwanese American Steve Chen. A fourth partner, South Korean-born Park Sung-ho, joined in 2016.

Members of the collective work behind the scenes on one another’s films, and occasionally appear in front of the camera as well. Their films have won honors at festivals worldwide, helping to put Cambodian cinema back on the global map and boosting a new generation of filmmakers raised in the shadows of the horrors inflicted four decades ago by the genocidal forces of the Khmer Rouge.
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Interview with Sreylin Meas: Maybe the perspective of the people who have power is not the same as ours.
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Sreylin Meas began her career in filmmaking as a film crew member in 2009. She has since worked on film and television productions, and “California Dreaming” is her first short film.

On the occasion of “California Dreaming” screening at Osaka Asian Film Festival, we talk with her about Anti-Archive, the inspiration behind the film and the title, the place of women in Cambodian society, and many other topics.

Anti-Archive was created among close friends who love making films so we can easily find funds to produce films. The goal is to make films that we want to make. I got involved with Anti-Archive even before it begun, through friends I had worked with on previous projects and who, then later, created the company.

What was the inspiration behind California Dreaming and how did you come up with the particular title?

It is very personal story and somehow it is my first time writing so I couldn’t find the best way to express it during the process of writing. At one point, I accidentally watched “Chungking Express” by Wong Kar-wai during the process of my script writing. I was inspired by the film, especially Part II about the lead girl. I cannot even describe the feeling she gave me. I’m not sure if she is happy by the end of the film or not. That is how I could continue writing my story. I ended up giving the name of my film according to the feeling it’s giving me; although some people won’t get it. It is symbolic of a place we dream to be but not even sure if it’s a happy place. Maybe it’s all in our mind.

Full interview at https://asianmoviepulse.com/2020/03/int ... ylin-meas/
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‘White Building’: First Clip For Cambodian Drama, Jia Zhangke Among Producers — Venice Film Festival
By Andreas Wiseman
September 3, 2021 8:21am
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s a fun first clip for Venice Film Festival coming-of-age drama White Building, which will get its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival. [Link below]
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The Cambodian title, which will unspool in the Horizons strand, marks the feature debut of shorts director Kavich Neang.

Cambodian cinema is having a moment in the sun this year at Venice with another Cambodian film, sci-fi feature Karmalink, opening Critics’ Week.

White Building is naturalistic drama that follows 20-year-old Samnang and his group of friends in the eponymous White Building, a landmark tenement housing block in Phnom Penh. In this fast-changing city, the three boys practice their dance routine dreaming of TV talent contests while their parents lead a traditional lifestyle, all of them living in harmony. But the White Building is to be demolished. Samnang sees his father unsuccessfully attempting to bring together his divided neighbours around the government’s compensation offers for residents to move out, and has to face his best friend’s departure to Europe. Sam understands that the stable environment he has always called home is now on shaky ground.

Starring are Piseth Chhun, Sithan Hout, Sokha Uk, Chinnaro Soem, Sovann Tho, Jany Min, Chandalin Y. Screenplay comes from Neang and Daniel Mattes.

Producers are Anti-Archive (Davy Chou), Apsara Films (Marine Arrighi de Casanova), Xstream Pictures (Jia Zhang-ke), Kongchak Pictures (Loy Te), Rotha Moeng, Brandon Hashimoto. Les Films du Losange is handling sales.

Neang said: “Phnom Penh seems to change every day, but our memories remain. My family’s 2017 eviction from the White Building, an historic apartment block, made way for new casino developments. Like my parents’ generation, which suffered through Cambodia’s troubled past, my generation now carries the traumas of the present. Young people, like my film’s protagonist, Samnang, dream of something better in the new Cambodia. Yet larger decisions are still out of their hands, and parents like Samnang’s remain stubbornly tied to tradition. But this film allowed me to imagine again. The fiction frees Samnang from my own path. He wakes up from a long sleep. He recalls the past but charts his own future.”
https://deadline.com/video/white-buildi ... -festival/

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