- Additional Authors
- Found In
- Khmer Dance Project moving image.
- Description
- 1 streaming video file (46 min) : sound, color
- Summary
- Sim Muntha discusses her childhood dance training, her teachers, the roles she danced (switching from the female to the male role). She speaks about how ballets were created in the past, how singing in the past differs from the present methods. Muntha discusses offerings that must be made to teachers and to the spirits of dance; Queen Kossomak -- how she dressed, her skill at correcting musicians and dancers, and creating ballets, her supervision of rehearsals and her love of dance. Muntha speaks about her experience under the Khmer Rouge, her evacuation from Phnom Penh, the deaths of her children and husband, her survival and recovery. She gives her opinion of the current state of dance; the economic hardships she and other artists face; her work making embroidery. She discusses how she learned embroidery; costume patterns; how Khmer costumes differ from Thai costumes; how long it takes to make costumes; materials they are made from.
- Alternative Title
- Khmer Dance Project moving image.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Video.
- Interviews.
- Nonfiction films.
- Note
- There are no subtitles from ca. 10-12 min. From ca. 38 min. to the end of the tape there is footage of Muntha with family members, and of the house and surrounding streets; there are no subtitles on this section.
- Access (note)
- Patrons can access streaming video file online.
- Credits (note)
- Recorded by Bophana Audiovisual Resources Center; cameraman, Prum Mesa; sound engineer, Sea Vissal; editors, Koh Rathany, Suppya Nut; translators, Suppya Nut, Jacqueline Foelster; director, Khmer Dance Project, Suppya Nut.
- Funding (note)
- Khmer Dance Project funded by Anne H. Bass Foundation.
- System Details (note)
- Source (note)
- A production of the Khmer Dance Project, initiated by the Center for Khmer Studies in partnership with the Jerome Robbins Dance Division of The New York Public Library, with a grant from the Anne Hendricks Bass Foundation.
- Language (note)
- Khmer, with English titles, credits, and subtitles.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDF 1267
- OCLC
- 857599646
- Title
Interview with Sim Muntha, 2008-07-24.
- Copyright Date
Khmer Dance Project, videotape copyright ©2012.
- Country of Producing Entity
Cambodia.
- Type of Content
two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
video
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Performer
Sim Muntha, interviewee ; Suppya Nut, interviewer.
- Credits
Recorded by Bophana Audiovisual Resources Center; cameraman, Prum Mesa; sound engineer, Sea Vissal; editors, Koh Rathany, Suppya Nut; translators, Suppya Nut, Jacqueline Foelster; director, Khmer Dance Project, Suppya Nut.
- Event
Recorded 24 July 2008 Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
- System Details
Streaming video.
- Original Version
Original format: DVCam cassettes.
- Restricted Access
Patrons can access streaming video file online.
- Funding
Khmer Dance Project funded by Anne H. Bass Foundation.
- Language
Khmer, with English titles, credits, and subtitles.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
Sim Muntha, interviewee.
Nut, Suppya, interviewer.
Prum Mesa, videographer.
Sea Vissal, sound engineer.
Koh Rathany, editor of moving image work.
Nut, Suppya, editor of moving image work.
Nut, Suppya, translator.
Foelster, Jacqueline, translator.
Nut, Suppya, director.
Majjhamanḍal Khmersiksā.
- Added Title
Khmer Dance Project moving image.
- Found In:
Khmer Dance Project moving image.
- Research Call Number
*MGZIDF 1267