Nargis - when time stopped breathing
Director Kyaw Kyaw Oo, Maung Myint Aung
Countries Germany, Myanmar
Duration 90 min
Synopsis
Nargis - when time stopped breathing In May 2008 a cyclone called Nargis raged for hours in Myanmars Ayeyarwaddy Delta, killing 140,000 people. Seven days after the storm, we made our way to villages that had been utterly devastated. Life was going on, somehow, in the most fragile of settings and yet it felt as if time had stood still. We moved through a world that appeared more surreal than real, where life and death seemed to coexist and survivors talked about the dead as if they were still with them. Our images reflect our own feelings as much as those of the people we met; we have carefully woven these emotions into an intimate and poetic film.
Nargis - when time stopped breathing In May 2008 a cyclone called Nargis raged for hours in Myanmars Ayeyarwaddy Delta, killing 140,000 people. Seven days after the storm, we made our way to villages that had been utterly devastated. Life was going on, somehow, in the most fragile of settings and yet it felt as if time had stood still. We moved through a world that appeared more surreal than real, where life and death seemed to coexist and survivors talked about the dead as if they were still with them. Our images reflect our own feelings as much as those of the people we met; we have carefully woven these emotions into an intimate and poetic film.