Anti-Archive is a production company giving voice to an edgier new wave of Cambodian movie makers. They have seized the opportunity afforded by inexpensive shooting methods – using hand held video for example, alongside an emerging artistic community who are concerned less about Cambodia’s dreadful holocaust of the 1970s and more about the pressing challenges of modern life. Careless urbanisation, the discontentment that walks hand in hand with higher education and the stress on families all get airplay in Ant-Archive’s roster of movies which have garnered international awards.
Anti-Archive is a Cambodian film production company, which produces and co-produces fiction and documentary films by the emerging, new generation of Cambodian filmmakers, as well as films by international, independent directors shooting in Cambodia. Deliberately provocative, the name Anti-Archive invites one to rethink the relationship of films and filmmakers with the past and history.
The founders Davy Chou and Steve Chen met in Phnom Penh in 2009, when they were each developing their own film projects. Steve Chen worked on the production of GOLDEN SLUMBERS, and in 2012 directed and produced the Cambodian feature film DREAM LAND with support from Davy Chou.
The company recognises the need for a structure of film production in Cambodia to support young independent filmmakers, some of whom have since shown their first works internationally.
Since 2009 they have produced a string of movies – mostly helmed by locals, but on some occasions using foreign Directors who fulfil a mentoring role to develop local talent.
One film that characterises the social bite of these talented film makers is White Building(2022). This is a coming-of-age story told with a backdrop of modern greed as families are being threatened with eviction from a brutal white building that has been their home for years. Offered a pittance in compensation, families face an uncertain future in a city – Phnom Penh – that they can no longer afford.
The movie screened at many festivals world-wide and won warm reviews from journals such as the Guardian in the UK.
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