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 Photos and texts by Manon Ott & Grégory Cohen Illustrations by Mathieu Flammarion / Prefaces by Robert Ménard and Jane Birkin Published by Editions Autrement, 176 pages, May 2008. | ||
| Summary | ||
| Manon Ott and Grégory Cohen have been going to Burma for 5 years with the project to understand the daily life of the Burmese people under the dictatorship and the types of resistance which are being organised. The book is made up of a series of meetings with artists, journalists, writers who, in Burma or in exile, start a hidden protest, and monks, traders and residents talk about their living conditions and their lives over the past 20 years. The story is told by many different voices, including photographs, accounts and portraits... As an accompaniment to meeting these people, the illustrations and the collages in four-colour printing by Mathieu Flammarion reconstitute the world of repression and censorship which forms the backdrop to the trip. The status of the document, what we can show or say and what we must conceal, the author’s responsibility faced with reconstructed reality haunt the documentary throughout. The accounts also show how repression kills humanity and how resistance is a question of survival; the reference to Orwell in 1984 is never far from anyone's mind. The book is divided into 4 chapters:
The appendices give some reference data: chronology, maps, some clues to understanding Burmese culture and history (the newspapers, slogans, roles of astrology and magic numbers etc.) and finally, a bibliography. | ||
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