Burning Mouth Syndrome

Burning Mouth Syndrome (Syndrome de la bouche brûlante) is an intimate journey in my memories oscillating between France and Cambodia, the triviality of everyday life and poetry. Moving across temporalities, physical and imagined spaces, an inner landscape unfolds, exploring the father-daughter relationship, dual culture, exile, absence, and unspeakability. This burning mouth perhaps expresses an urgency to dislodge those small stones in the shoe, at the back of the throat, to bring them out, to invent new rituals to resist forgetting, and to weave the threads that bind.

Writer & performer: Eléonore Sok
Translation: Seng Sitha, Niyalic Khun, Eleonore Sok
Producers: Dana Langlois, Lyna Kourn
Outside eyes: Yvan Mérat-Barboff, Eric Ellul
Sound: Lynn Nandar Htoo
Lighting: Somary Thuon, Eric Soyer
Animation: Guillaume Quérard
Surtitle Operator: Julia Sam
Costume: Lavee
Photographers: Vannak Chhen, CLA, Juliette Buchez

With the support of Creative Generation, Cambodian Living Arts, and The Last Stage