The Missing Picture

These battered, scratched pieces of film are eloquent testimony for the terrible offences that happened.

Rithy Panh's cinema is an exemplary case of the imperative to bear witness.

Many films have examined from many vantages the Khmer Rouge's nightmare reign, notably Roland Joff's 1985 Oscar winner The Killing Fields.

Its often personal, painful recollections are illustrated in part by elaborate clay-figure dioramas of prison camp life, to an impact not unlike Art Spiegelman’s Maus.