Experiments in video Poetry – Yeng Chheangly

Posted by Yeng Chheangly | Magazine, Poetry

Mekong River speak out her grief to villagers. Created from the inspiration of documenting the images of Tommyo Costa Ito.

នេះគឺជាវីដេអូនកំណាព្យទីបីហើយ ដែលខ្ញុំ បានរៀនផលិត។ លើកនេះ ខ្ញុំបានដកស្រងយកច្បាប់ប្រុសដោយបណ្ឌិត ម៉ឺង ម៉ៃ មកបង្ហាញ ដោយបង្កើតរូបភាពថ្មីបន្ថែមទាក់ទងនឹងមុខ របស់កុមារី យ៉េង ចន្ទគឺមអ៊ី និង ថន ណាត់ថាក់លី។

I’ve been learning this process of making video merging them with Khmer poetry. This time I took some part of the old master poet work, Chok Moen Mai. The piece I took were from Chbab Bros or the Behavior for men. I mixed them with the faces of little lovely nieces Yeng Chankim Y and Thorn Nattaklee.

About The Author

Yeng Chheangly

I am a poet trained in the modernist style of poetry. I was born in 1988 in Kandal province near Phnom Penh to parents that were forced to marry during the Khmer Rouge. I have three brothers and two sisters and return to the village where my mother lives on weekends to help teach the children and promote reading through The Magic Library Project. I edited a bilingual collection of modernist poets, “In the Shadow” which was published in 2016 and am a co-founder of Slap Paka Khmer. Slap Paka Khmer is an informal group that is created with the aim of promoting writing. We often unite in a safe place and share our work. We create reading nights at rotating venues. Lately, I collaborated with a Brazilian cinema researcher creating video poetry and sharing them with our Khmers and ex-pat audience. My poems appear in the Nou Hach Literary Journal, an Asean Anthology, titled “Perjuangan Bangsa Dalam Puisi Dan Syair Asean”, and the Biennale of Asian Poetry in New Delhi.