Emerging Cambodian filmmaker Kavich Neang has a deep personal connection with the White Building, an iconic structure that was demolished in 2017. Neang’s fiction film “White Building&#…
has a deep personal connection with the White Building, an iconic structure that was demolished in 2017.’s Horizons strand, and the filmmaker has also explored the subject in the Rotterdam-winning documentary “Last Night I Saw You Smiling” .
When plans for the building’s demolition were announced in 2017, Neang witnessed all his neighbors and friends packing their belongings to leave. “The demolition of the building actually freed me from my obsession with my home, and forced me to look at the other historic apartment blocks around Phnom Penh which are facing similar threats of demolition,” Neang adds. “We ended up shooting the film in two other buildings, and we found each one had communities of their own which reminded me of my former home.”
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