To me, form is not something that you can plan beforehand, especially for a documentary. You can't write it or sketch it. It requires a confrontation with reality, with history, with ethics and morals. After identifying good content, you have to find the right form to express that content.

I left Cambodia when I was 12 or 13. I didn't really escape, but I needed to go away.

'The Missing Picture' came together slowly, after much provocation and by refusing different forms, until I finally found the right form.

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