“an engaging hook to the country's lost
popular culture of the '60s and '70s,
when the tiny kingdom, under Norodom Sihanouk,
boogied to music inspired by Anglo-American pop”
The Cambodian Space Project: Not easy Rock'n'Roll
In a Phnom Penh karaoke bar in 2009 Australian musician Julien Poulson hears the extraordinary voice of poor village girl Srey Thy.
The result is tempestuous cross-cultural romance and the birth of The Cambodian Space Project, a thrilling musical explosion that wows audiences worldwide with sounds from the 1960s and ‘70s golden age of Cambodian rock. Filmed over five years this intimate documentary tells the story of performers whose struggle to overcome poverty, trauma and obscurity has never been easy.
CREDITS
EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Sharyn Prentice & Angus Macqueen
PRODUCER: Richard Kuipers
FILMED, PRODUCED & DIRECTED: Marc Eberle
EDITOR: Andrea Lang
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The Cambodian Space Project: Not easy Rock'n'Roll
that show a kingdom embracing and adapting western pop culture but, in retrospect,
laying the seeds for the political backlash that was to come.”
with modern-day ambitions without overwhelming them.”
give an authentically trashy bounce to the material.”
