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19. Aug. 2021 · Watch trailer. Genres: Documentary. Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes. Availability: Worldwide. The survival of ancient Southeast Asian culture is explored in Dancing Through Death: The Monkey, Magic & Madness of Cambodia.
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- The Gardner Documentary Group
The survival of Ancient Southeast Asian culture is explored in Dancing Through Death: the Monkey, Magic & Madness of Cambodia. Produced and directed by Janet Gardner, it is the story of Thavro Phim a Cambodian dancer, who came of age under the Pol Pot regime and lost his father, brother and grandfather during the bloody reign of the Khmer Rouge.
With Thavro Phim, Marlene Sanders, Yit Sarin. The film follows three generations of Cambodian monkey dancers in the United States and Cambodia. They are striving to rebuild their centuries-old tradition of story-telling after the genocide of the Pol Pot regime destroyed much of their culture.
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29. Sept. 2010 · The film includes footage of dance as it struggled to survive in the prisons, the refugee camps and as it emerged after the downfall of the Khmer Rouge. In the film, we also learn about Yale’s Cambodian Genocide Project and see Thavro return to Cambodia to find his remaining family and teachers.
This interesting story is threaded around the life of Thavro Phim, a refugee of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia, who now dances the role of Hanuman, the magical white monkey of classical court dance. Thavro returns to Cambodia and visits Ankor Wat, the Killing Fields, a prison museum and the Documentation Center of Cambodia. The role of dancers at ...
The survival of Ancient Southeast Asian culture is explored in Dancing Through Death: the Monkey, Magic & Madness of Cambodia. Produced and directed by Janet Gardner, it is the story of Thavro Phim a Cambodian dancer, who came of age under the Pol Pot regime and lost his father, brother and grandfather during the bloody reign of the Khmer Rouge ...
Dancing Through Death: The Monkey, Magic & Madness of Cambodia. A resident of the United States since 1993, Thavro Phim is a Cambodian dancer who came of age under the Pol Pot regime. He returned to Cambodia in 1998 for a bittersweet reunion with his family and former teachers.
