ENTRY DESCRIPTION
About 4 million tourists pass through the enigmatic galleries and streets of Angkor Wat each year, stopping just long enough to take a selfie before continuing their frenetic pursuit of  the next attraction the Kingdom of Cambodia can offer them.
Far removed from this madness are the monks who, although they seem to emerge from the very bowels of the temples, are in fact also tourists passing through Angkor. Unlike the hundreds of loud and hurried foreigners who pass them brusquely by (thus protagonizing a rare, live time lapse), the monks silently occupy every alley until they establish a connection without which, it seems, they can advance no further. In this way, slowly, they blend into the carvings on the walls, doors and hollows until they become part of the landscape and [seem to] disappear into the largest religious structure ever built.

AUTHOR
Marcelo Silva Fuentes (1973) is a Chilean industrial designer and artist who works in areas as graphic design, photography, illustration, painting, animation, videography and music. He works as creative director at Klee® the visual communications studio that he owns with his wife the designer Pilar Ocampo since 1997.
In 2006 obtains an honorable mention in the Lucie Awards in Los Angeles, California. In 2009 obtains the first place in the industrial category of the International Photography Awards in New York .
Marcelo lived in Easter Island for one year and after that experience he works  making portraits as well shooting life routines of different ethnic groups through Chile, but along the time he has been extending that idea to other countries.  In 2019 began the short film series titled "My Window Time", a static camera recording a time lapses in a super wide angle from his studio window for a whole year. In 2020 his nanofilm "Karma" is part of the official selection in the "Berlin Flash Film Festival", the same year his short documentary "Linemen" gets the first place in the "Spotlight Documentary Film Award" .
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