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A CAMBODIAN ILLUSTRATOR IN EXILE


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7PM: DOCUMENTARY - As an artist and political activist, Ung Bun Heang was both an idealist and a passionate, unforgiving Cambodian nationalist. Under the pen name ‘Sacrava’, he fired off a barrage of scurrilous cartoons attacking not only the Prime Minister and the Hun Sen regime but equally the royalists, the late King Father Sihanouk, America, China and all of Cambodia’s neighbors, especially Thailand and Vietnam. No one was spared, not even the opposition when he felt they needed a bite on the ankles – or, what he called, a poke with his pen. But he paid the price. Heang knew he could never return to his beloved homeland from his adopted one, Australia. “I know exactly I am an ugly, black sheep in Cambodia,” he once said. Above all, the artist longed for a new generation of Cambodians that would question, think critically and speak out with the sort of freedoms he had discovered abroad. STRADDLING TWO WORLDS (2013, 21 min) profiles the late artist.

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