Beautiful Angkor-Wat, Cambodia

Cambodia was the penultimate stop on Gaston Méliès' film journey around the world, and he made four feature films and three documentaries there. Most of them are set in the ruins of the temples of Angkor Wat and Angkor Thom. Today, no satisfactory explanation can be found for the sequence of images; there are obviously-staged shots of people riding elephants and what appears to be a fragment of an acted scene. Most of the footage is merely a descriptive contemplation of a sacred place untouched by the tourism industry. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)