The fifth installment, Ekleipsis, focuses on “the largest group of hysterically blind people in the world,” female survivors of the Cambodian genocide living in Long Beach, California. The work combines video and narrations of text from multiple sources, including the film The Killing Fields, news reports, Freud's account of hysteria, accounts of survivors, and a “fictionalized voice” of the women.” Repetitive flashes of images are shown, evoking “the effects of visual disturbance caused by trauma” and disrupting the viewer’s search for their meaning. The scholar Fiona Ngô notes that “the film plays with what can and cannot be represented about war and trauma.”
