Last Night I Saw You Smiling

Director: Kavich Neang

2019 / 78min / DCP

Neang was born and raised in the White Building (aka the Municipal Apartments) in Phnom Penh, a once-impressive modernist structure—crumbling and condemned to demolition at the time Neang came to film it—whose life and last days are the subjects of Last Night I Saw You Smiling. A moving work that combines personal recollections of the building by soon-to-be-evicted residents with a broader historical perspective of its colorful life, exploring the structure’s fortunes during the rise and fall of the Khmer Rouge as well as its later role as a destination for the city’s artists. “A touching and meditative cine-essay about community and home.”—The Guardian

"Kavich Neang is one of the founders of Anti-Archive. Made in a hurry and without a plan, due to the circumstances of the imminent demolition of the iconic building where Kavich has always lived with his family, Last Night I Saw You Smiling is a miraculous film on the act of filming as resistance to oblivion."—Davy Chou

Introduction by Davy Chou on Sunday, June 23rd