The Practice of Art Media and the Rebirth of Historical Archives: A Case Study of Rithy Panh’s The Missing Picture

To cite this article: LIANG Sixuan. (2021). The practice of art media and the rebirth of historical archives: A case study of Rithy Panh’s The Missing Picture. Asia-Pacific Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences, 01: 2, 090-096, DOI: 10.53789/j.1653-0465.2021.0102.010

To link to this article:  https://doi.org/10.53789/j.1653-0465.2021.0102.010

Abstract: By regulating archives and other media, Cambodian director Rithy Panh’s documentary The Missing Picture constructs a memory model of disaster narrative. The regulation of media by Rithy Panh enables a dialogue between an individual life experience and historical facts in the documentary, and opens the historical time and space suppressed by the official memory. It also explores the responsibility of “memory as a treasure of suffering” under social conflicts, and further raises questions about the weakness of Cambodian memory. From the perspective of “media regulation”, the paper makes analysis of how Rithy Panh has constructed his visual historical archives and the cultural factors behind the documentary by regulating media.

Keywords: Rithy Panh; The Missing Picture; media; archives

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