Communication and (Dis)Connection in Diaspora: Jean-Baptiste Phou’s ‘Cambodia, Here I am,’ and ‘My Mother’s Tongue’
Author, actor, and filmmaker Jean-Baptiste Phou screens two works that explore protagonists’ yearning and attempts to connect with other people and places across seemingly insurmountable differences wrought by traumatic histories and forced displacement. First, Phou will screen an excerpt from his stage play, Cambodia, Here I Am. With a premiere in Paris in 2011, Cambodia, Here I […]