Unknown Pleasures presents two lyrical works by Cambodian-Australian filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist Allison Chhorn. Q&A with Chhorn to be moderated by Zac Tomé.

In Allison Chhorn’s remarkable, nearly wordless docu-fiction featurette THE PLASTIC HOUSE (2019), a young woman (Chhorn) tends to her family’s dilapidated greenhouse following her parents’ deaths. As time passes, she becomes absorbed in the slow and solitary ritual of labour as a means of processing grief. The film will be preceded by BLIND BODY (2021), in which Chhorn movingly evokes the sensory world of her grandmother Kim Nay, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge who is visually impaired.

Presented by Unknown Pleasures, a screening series of Australian independent cinema featuring filmmaker Q&As. Curated by Zac Tomé, Maudie Osborne, Grace Boschetti and Digby Houghton.

Duration

61 MINS