Documentary. Archival. Personal. Promotional.

Visual Anthropologist/Documentary filmmaker, Robert Carleton-Chhaing is a founding member of the Los Angeles experimental arts collective, Hop-Frog Kollectiv, the record label, URCK Records and Akara Films. Carleton focuses on art, particularly film and music, as a tool for social change.  His first documentary film, From the Heart of Brahma, is about Cambodian Classical Dancer and LBGTQ activist, Prumsodun Ok.  Meanwhile he has worked on multiple documentary shorts with Meta House in Phnom Penh in association with the E.C.C.C. about civil parties to the Khmer Rouge tribunal. He is currently in post-production on his new work on British photographer Colin Grafton's work in Cambodia and a documentary about Cambodian-American hip-hop artist praCh Ly’s KhmerAspora performance.  He is on the advisory board of Cambodia Town, Inc. in Long Beach, California where he has worked on multiple projects including video oral histories of survivors of the Cambodian Genocide. With Akara Films, Robert also centers work on oral histories, personal and promotional films.