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Clip description
A woman recalls the things her mother told her about village life in Cambodia and the onset of war.
Curator’s notes
The use of text, rather than voice, demands a different kind of involvement from the viewer. The narrator is remote, anonymous; like narrators found in novels. At the same time, the absence of voice invites the viewer to be more involved with the other sounds.
The moving text sometimes creates tension between image and words: both demand our attention on screen, one, then the other, taking precedence. As village life is destroyed by war, the text changes from a ripple to a disintegrating cascade.
