‘Funeral’ by Vandy Rattana is the third in a series of films that explores notions of history – both disclosed and occluded, memory, amnesia, and trauma through the cinematic capturing of Cambodia’s landscape, which has entombed within its terrain a richness of untold stories and experiences lived and buried within its soil and felt in the atmosphere of its surrounds.In ‘Funeral’, Vandy again considers notions of death and the afterlife but unlike ‘MONOLOGUE’ where research was rooted in stories of the survivors of the Khmer Rouge regime, in ‘Funeral’ Vandy incorporates a fictionalized narrative that enlaces myths and legends with the history and a prediction of the fate of the Khmer people.
