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There's no truth, There's only cinema |
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Rithy Panh's powerful and personal documentary about Khmer Rouge era Cambodia is one of the best films at this year's Cannes festival
Cambodian director Rithy Panh's new documentary film pays tribute to and questions the power of image. With a tender, evocative and self-reflective tone, the film is about images that can be shown and that cannot, that should be seen and that should not, that are lost and that are found, that are touchable and that are invisible, that are ethically dubious and that are movingly, irredeemably personal.
L'image Manquante, or The Missing Image, premiered at the 66th Cannes Film Festival on Sunday evening, and it looks set to become one of the most memorable films ever made about Cambodian history during the Khmer Rouge era.
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In art show, scarlet woman unravels diaspora dilemma |
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Cambodia
It was halfway through last year and the tempestuous and unpredictable rainy season was in full swing: grey, clouds thundered across Phnom Penh and, in a rice field on the fringes of the city, gusts of wind sent ripples through blades of emerald grass – ideal weather conditions for an artists’ photo shoot, it so happened.
Mixed-media artist and spoken word poet Anida Yoeu Ali was perched precariously on an oversized red stool, the metres-long, blood red cape attached to her dress billowing out over the grass, ballooning into a riot of shapes. Then she fell off, prompting the director and crew to wade through to help the 39-year-old artist as she laughed, muddied in the wet field.
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Indonesia-Malaysia collaboration to save rhinos |
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If Malaysia and Indonesia want to save their respective rhino populations, sacrificing what makes them different from each other might be the only way.
With fewer than 100 Sumatran rhinos (dicerorhinus sumatrensis) left in the wild, the situation has grown so dire that preventing their extinction might require combining the two populations, and eliminating what little genetic diversity remains between them.
That was the conclusion of a new study by an international team of rhino experts published in the journal Oryx, which proposed that Sumatran rhinos in Borneo and Sumatra be treated as a 'single management unit'.
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Anti-forestry expansion petition reaches one million signatures |
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Indonesia
An online petition urging Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the Aceh Governor to reject a plan that would open up much of Aceh's forests to commercial exploitation has surpassed one million signatures.
The plan, known as Rencana Tata Ruang Wilayah (RTRW), has been hammered out behind closed doors and many of the specifics are unknown to the public, but activists say it will pave the way for the destruction of hundreds of thousands of hectares of more virgin forest.
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