Im/Perfect Modernisms Film Series: Golden Slumbers (2011)

October 2024 through January 2025, join us for the Im/Perfect Modernisms Film Series. Four films will be screened throughout the run of the exhibition, offering new perspectives on the cultural contexts and artistic communities in Japan, India, China, and Cambodia that produced many of the works on view.

Golden Slumbers (2011)

“Between 1960 and 1975, Cambodia’s film industry grew enormously by producing 400 films. However, when the Khmer government took over, most filmmakers were purged from the country, and their movies were burned. Only about 30 films survived the ordeal. Golden Slumbers portrays the cinema of the past as a benevolent haunting spirit, using beautiful photography and contemplative, long, slow dolly shots. These techniques endow the film’s alternately lush and barren locales with a sense of wistful, even beautiful desolation. Songs from the missing films echo through Golden Slumbers as if the film itself were an empty old cinema. Mr. Chou taps into something profound about the dream life of a nation.”

The Im/Perfect Modernisms Film Series

• October 5: When a Woman Ascends the Stairs (1960)
• November 16: Duvidha (1973)
• December 7: Red Sorghum (1987)
• January 18: Golden Slumbers (2011)