The ethics of incompletion : film bodies and absence in the films of Rithy Panh and Joshua Oppenheimer

• Main Author: Chia, Justin Ian Soon Hann
• Other Authors: Brian Keith Bergen-Aurand
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Visual arts and music::Film; DRNTU::Humanities::Ethics
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/61918
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The Ethics of Incompletion addresses the relationship between film bodies and absence in essay films that explore the traumatic events which shaped and scarred the socio-political landscapes of Cambodia and Indonesia. The primary texts to be analyzed are Rithy Panh’s S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Mac...