Although this film won an award as an excellent anticommunist film, being classified as one of many anticommunist films produced in the 1970s, the director shows his cynical irony by paradoxically revealing the emptiness of anticommunist ideology.
This is one of a series of compilations: seven short fiction films and three short documentaries. It is directed by ten filmmakers, visual artists and musicians to honor the tenth anniversary of the Indonesian Reform era.
Kim Su-Im was working for the US Army Military Government in Korea in the 1940s. She was arrested while giving information to the Workers Party of South Korea as the mistress of an American colonel Baird. The film consists of Su-Im’s recollection of the past.
Filming started in the early 1980s and it took the director over thirty years to complete the film. Director Kidlat plays the role of Magellan’s slave Enrique, who was with Magellan when the Philippines was first discovered.
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.
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.