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ENTR'ACTE CAMBODGIEN
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Walter Romeo
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| From 1975 to 1979 Cambodia, ruled by the Khmer
Rouges, turns into a huge work-camp; private property, money,
education and religion are abolished. Eventually, two million
victims can be counted (one third of the whole population),
the social fabric is torn and is today still in process of rearrangement.
Social cohesion is based, before the genocide as well as today,
on a syncretism of Buddhism Theravada with ancient animistic
practices (the cult of ancestors, of the domestic geniuses,
of nature's spirits). As a Karstic river, religiousness resurfaces
intact, with specific peculiarities distinguishing it from that
of other South East Asian countries. From the fields to the
capital's riversides, the small gestures and the great magnificence
of five different ceremonies represent this country's reality
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Screenplay Walter Romeo
Photography (colour) Walter Romeo, Cécile Verstraeten
Editing Walter Romeo
Music Gianluca Licciardi
Production Miliaplus
Year of production 2005
Running time 15'
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Walter Romeo
He graduated in DAMS at the University of Calabria with a thesis on the theory and technique of cinematographic language. He works in Rome as a cameraman, editor and freelance director for Italian and European tv productions and programmes. He has directed documentary films (No solo adelante, 2004, on street entertainment in Guatemala and Salvador; Okun Charan Ciai, 2005, on the cooperation work of the CIAI NGO in Cambodia; Ecole des arts, 2005) and the short film Il taglio (2005). In 2002 he was the only Italian to participate in the project The volunteers' odyssey on voluntary work in developing countries. He published articles and reportages in various magazines.
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