Okay Bye-Bye

A piece of footage found on the street was the impetus for Okay Bye-Bye, this personal meditation on the Cambodian genocide of the late 1970's. Okay Bye-Bye, which takes its title from the phrase shouted by Cambodian children to the U.S. ambassador as he fled Phnom Penh in 1975, combines spoken narrative, found Super-8 footage of an unidentified Cambodian man and other partial images drawn from letters, memoirs and journalistic accounts. Using such a diverse range of sources, BARON explores the relationship of history and memory, questioning whether something as monumental as the genocidal slaughter of Cambodians can be examined effectively with traditional methodologies.