Genre Sub Genre is a short film consisting of four episodes documenting the predictions of a land in the Southeast of Indonesia. An experimental video work, it was included in the movie and photography project hosted by the Nusa Tenggara Timur Museum of Indonesia.
Cinema has traditionally been dominated by films about good versus evil, the good fighting against the bad. However, the good and the bad only exist in stories. In reality, every evil act in history has been committed by human beings like ourselves.
In Barricade, Dinh Q. L? reflects on the legacy of the Vietnamese and Algerian peoples’ struggle against French colonialism. These revolutions have universal significance: across the continents of Asia to Africa, the same liberating wave to free the colonized “natives” of racial and cultural confinement was ushered in.
All sixty six villagers from six villages participated, playing roles. The story was continuous but the actors who played the characters were constantly changed as the filming location moved from one village to another.
G?re?’s work focuses on the gap between the current picture, controlled by the state, and the direction of global changes. The mobile phone industry as a global force introduced mobility in access to communication. The three screen video installation Open Phone Booth (2010-2011) is about this tragicomic reality.
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.