Encouraged by the welcoming response from our audiences last year, the Hong Kong Arts Centre and the Seoul Independent Film Festival continue to bring you indie films by Korean women filmmakers! The liberal and ambitious spirit of Korean film development has allowed its creators to explore a great variety of stories and styles, and women are taking the stage to express themselves with films that are more widely available on global film distribution and festival circuits, gaining recognition and enriching different cultures.
This year, our selection carries on with telling stories of Korean women of different generations and their life choices – overcoming misfortune and stigmas to bring about new discoveries, enlightenments and connections with the hope of addressing realities that do not only involve women, but everyone – such as women’s changing priorities in their role, the phenomenon of holojok (the growing number of people who prefer to be left alone in one-person households), ageism,...
This year, our selection carries on with telling stories of Korean women of different generations and their life choices – overcoming misfortune and stigmas to bring about new discoveries, enlightenments and connections with the hope of addressing realities that do not only involve women, but everyone – such as women’s changing priorities in their role, the phenomenon of holojok (the growing number of people who prefer to be left alone in one-person households), ageism,...
- 7/8/2022
- by Adriana Rosati
- AsianMoviePulse
The 1960s French champagne socialists would appreciate Lee Soojung’s documentary about a middle-aged former factory worker Jaechun, who discovers art as a form of protest, joining the group of people with the same aim to fight their way back to the employment through activism. Although he neither speaks in math or pretends to have become cultured over night, Jaechun does find himself in this new milieu slowly overcoming his problem with being introverted and shy. This is the information given through the opening title cards that serve as a form of silent over-voice that continue to guide us through the film. Speaking of which, this isn’t the only thing that mimics some of the silent movie elements. The title cards, with white letters on the black background are accompanied by intense piano solos.
“Sister J” is screening as part of Women Direct. Korean Indies! – Korean Women Independent Film...
“Sister J” is screening as part of Women Direct. Korean Indies! – Korean Women Independent Film...
- 7/5/2022
- by Marina D. Richter
- AsianMoviePulse
“Odessa Steps 2022” by experimental artist and filmmaker Tan Tan is one of the first movies to come in New Asian Filmmakers Collective’s anti-war campaign “Against the war, in the name of cinema”. The short uses scenes from Sergei Eisenstein’s masterpiece “Battleship Potemkin” to explore the current invasion of Ukraine.
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In many ways, Tan Tan’s short documentary reminds the viewer of “A Monologue about Home” and “News Feed On My…”, both from the same campaign by New Asian Filmmakers Collective. Like the former, it juxtaposes present and past as a way to comment on humanity. Here, however, the scenes from the past are taken not from 1990’s Ussr, but from Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 “Battleship Potemkin.” Later on, Tan Tan draws parallels between the Nazi attacks of Odessa and the current ones, putting into question the official Russian narratives about the invasion.
In her statement about the film,...
on CathayPlay
In many ways, Tan Tan’s short documentary reminds the viewer of “A Monologue about Home” and “News Feed On My…”, both from the same campaign by New Asian Filmmakers Collective. Like the former, it juxtaposes present and past as a way to comment on humanity. Here, however, the scenes from the past are taken not from 1990’s Ussr, but from Sergei Eisenstein’s 1925 “Battleship Potemkin.” Later on, Tan Tan draws parallels between the Nazi attacks of Odessa and the current ones, putting into question the official Russian narratives about the invasion.
In her statement about the film,...
- 4/7/2022
- by Martin Lukanov
- AsianMoviePulse
Lee Soojung’s short non-fiction movie “News Feed On My…” is one of twelve short anti-war movies from the first part of the campaign “Against The War, In The Name Of Cinema” started by the New Asian Filmmakers Collective. As such, the campaign is a great example of film activism.
News Feed On My… is streaming on
CathayPlay
The short is comprised of close shots of the director’s Facebook newsfeed opened on her phone and her finger swiping through the constant ballast of news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the background, we see a newspaper, never read or even touched.
In its brief runtime of only six minutes, Soojung’s movie manages to touch upon many things that became apparent in the first days after the Russian army invaded Ukraine. One of them is the sad fact that up until that point, the country was largely unknown,...
News Feed On My… is streaming on
CathayPlay
The short is comprised of close shots of the director’s Facebook newsfeed opened on her phone and her finger swiping through the constant ballast of news about the Russian invasion of Ukraine. In the background, we see a newspaper, never read or even touched.
In its brief runtime of only six minutes, Soojung’s movie manages to touch upon many things that became apparent in the first days after the Russian army invaded Ukraine. One of them is the sad fact that up until that point, the country was largely unknown,...
- 3/27/2022
- by Martin Lukanov
- AsianMoviePulse
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