Pool Days

Phono Journalism Podcast

By David Oppetit - 2018 The different sequences were recorded in and around Phnom Penh (Cambodia) during the "presidential" election period; Day & night. From June 2017 to Jully 2018. The result is a particular dynamic, a certain sleepiness in places, a crowd, sirens, helicopters in others. We have here a certain documentary part: last demonstration of the opposition party before is total prohibition and the putting in prison of its leaders, until the counting of the ballot papers. These documents represent for me an important aspect of the evolution and the recent political organization of this country. This election, in the end, was widely and internationally criticized. The resulting editing is sometimes dry, while breaking. The erent dogs are all around. Sirens, dogs, walkie talkies, television are just as many sound objects that allow me to enter a more musical aspect of the composition. No revolution or "Cambodian spring" this time. As a drowsiness and as a kind of incomprehention, a chain of events and rooting that nothing seems to shake.