Mae Nak is a deconstruction of the one of Thailand’s most popular ghost story “Mae Nak Phra Khanong” as well as the most popular genre of ghost films (more than twenty versions exist). The story is about the jealous spirit of a woman who died in childbirth while her husband was away in the battlefield.
This film is a bizarre piece by director Kim Ki-young who freely interpreted the novelist Yi Cheong-jun’s original story. Adopting the frame of a mystery drama and crossing over different time periods, Kim combines shamanism, the salvation of human beings, and even ecology in the film.
Starting with shiny rooftops and ending with the seemingly insignificant demise of the last circus elephant of its kind, The Dent weaves loosely linked events and irrational occurrences to reflect on collective failure and hopefulness. An anonymous little town struggles for international recognition as it becomes obvious that failure is a monster too big to slaughter.
Through filming landscapes, Adachi sought to reveal the structures of oppression that underpin and perpetuate the political system. Anabasis? It is the name given, since Xenophon, to wandering, circuitous homeward journeys.
The film pays homage to sci-fi film techniques in the 1960s and 1970s when filmmakers experimented with “Organic Effects” to depict life in space as well as American experimental filmmakers who explored film media as a conceptual art form.
Mediacity Seoul 2014 screening information has been updated. On 15th October, a Q&A session with Antoine Coppola will […]
Dinh Q. L?’s Barricade(2014) on the 1st floor of SeMA includes sound work. French/Algerian Musician Ham?, the co-worker […]
Grandmothers’ Lounge is on the 2nd floor of SeMA. Audio guide and audio guide textbook are available. […]
A free audio guide is provided in the voices of actors Hae-il Park (Korean) and Moon Choi (English). Identification is required to rent theaudio set. (Supplies Limited). The audio guide is also available on the Mediacity Seoul website.