Tum Teav part II

Jul 14th, 2003 by

Tum Teav part II

Aha! Other Tum Teav movie showing on Norordom. More news to follow.

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Night Please Go Faster

Jul 14th, 2003 by

Night Please Go Faster / The Glass Box

The National Theater will present two performances of “Night Please Go Faster” – an evening of contemporary Cambodian dance and theater, including “The Glass Box”: a contemporary dance by Sophiline Cheam Shapiro (who choreographed RUFA’s Cambodian dance interpretation of “Othello”) inspired by the tragic death of the great Cambodian dancer Piseth Pilika and “Photographs From S-21“: a short play by Catherine Filloux, in Khmer with English simultaneous sur-titles.

Saturday and Sunday July 19 and 20, 6pm at the North Campus Theater of the Royal University of Fine Arts, Street 70 next to the Old Stadium. Tickets riel 3,000, available at the door. Performances sponsored by the Kasumisou Foundation.

Program Note: A show entitled “Photographs from S-21: 1975-1979″ was exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in the summer of 1997. In the play, two photos come to life in this true-life exhibit. They are a young Cambodian woman and man whose photos were taken by the Khmer Rouge right after removing their blindfolds at the Tuol Sleng Prison in Phnom Penh.

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Tum Teav

Jul 14th, 2003 by

TUM TEAV

Managed to catch ‘Tum Teav’, the ‘Cambodian Romeo and Juliet’ at Kirrirom Cinema. Theatres are making a comeback in Phnom Penh which is great. For a low budget local production, this one got it just right. Lots of karaoke stars, a fairly faithful adaptation of the story (up to the end, at least), and no cheesy special effects. For 6000 riel that’s a good deal.

What’s interesting is that Tum Teav challenges both traditional ideas about marriage and has an authority figure as a bad guy. Maybe traditional culture in Cambodia isn’t as ‘traditional’ as it seems.

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This just in – there’s another film of ‘Tum Teav’ that just finished showing on Monivong! Any info on that would be appreciated.

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Christophe Pottier Lecture

Jul 13th, 2003 by

Lecture by EFEO’s Christophe Pottier on the 17th. Click on the link for more info.

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Cast Your Vote…

Jul 10th, 2003 by

Cast Your Vote…

Doing some web work in Phnom Penh, pitching in with the team producing BohChnout.info for Asia Foundation.
(Nope, I can´t take credit for the swanky design, I´m just helping around the edges.)

The tricky part is the Khmer font, since there is no unicode support for Khmer just yet. (I´ll see if I can dig up some links on this.) Once you get into the issue of Khmer fonts and linguistic families it gets pretty complicated. Most of the pioneering work is being done by techies and missionaries.

I’m just glad we’ve moved into the digital age. Imagine the typesetting headaches! Here’s a picture of an old Khmer typwriter.

Election time in Phnom Penh is curious… lots of political jargon being thrown around. Trucks full of party supporters blaring slogans via megaphones. Political posters plastered on every home and wall. This time around the Prime Minister is being elected, as well as local candidates.

In 1998 there was a bit of violence attending the election. Here´s hoping this one will be the quietest yet.

Khmer Unicode Mailing list
Controversy over Khmer Unicode

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