Voyage to Cambodia:Visions of Angkor Wat in the French Colonial

Imagination

Part 1:An Unexpected Journey

Rithy PanhAn internationally and critically acclaimed

Cambodian documentary film director and screenwriter

Bophana: Audiovisual Resource CenterPhnom Penh, Cambodia

My Co-workers

Bumping into… none other than Rithy Panh!

Angkor National Park

Part II:Inspiration for a thesis

Henri Mouhot(1826-1861)

“Discovered” Angkor Wat in 1860

Louis Delaporte(1842-1925)

French explorer and chief curator of Musée Indochinois

The Role of Parisian Museums in French perceptions of Indochina

Angkorean wing in the Musée Indochois in the Trocadéro in Paris

The Colonial Exhibitions…

The reconstruction of Angkor Wat

Restoring and Conserving Angkorthe work of the École Française d’Extrême Orient

Angkor as nationalist symbol