Documenting Shifting Landscapes – A Conversation with Kalyanee Mam

In December last year, Cambodian-American filmmaker Kalyanee Mam’s
short film Lost World screened at our Shifting Landscapes
exhibition in London. Kalyanee’s films tenderly document the
changing cultural and ecological landscapes of her homeland, and in
Lost World she shares the story of a community in Koh Sralau whose
livelihoods are threatened as the mangrove forests they depend on
are ruthlessly mined for sand to build an “eco-park” in Singapore.
In this conversation, recorded live at the exhibition, Emergence
executive editor Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee speaks with Kalyanee about
her years-long process of creating the film, and the intimate
relationships she holds with people and land that allow her to tell
powerful, and often heartbreaking, stories of changing landscapes
from a place of humility and connection.  Read the
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