DocLab’s Works

Based in Hanoi, DOCLAB is an art center for documentaries, experimental films and videos. Founded in 2009, DOCLAB has been working to take film and its audience back into the realm of the individual. Taking documentaries beyond “objectivities,” Hanoi DOCLAB explores the unknown in-between spaces: between objective observance and subjective experience, fiction and non-fiction, the public and the private.

Shakespeare Must Die

A dictator sits alone in his dark mansion, grieving for his mad, dead wife, as a mass uprising rages against him. Elsewhere in a theatre, Shakespeare’s Macbeth is being staged; its scenes intercut with his flashbacks to tell the story of an ambitious general who, prompted by witches, kills the king to crown himself.

The Border City 2

In 2003, Prof. Song Du-yul decided to go back to his homeland after spending thirty seven years in Germany in spite of an arrest warrant that had been issued. But within a week he fell from a respected advocate of democracy to the biggest spy ever. This threw Korean society into a turmoil of red paranoia.

The Propeller Group

The camera is positioned directly in front of the targets inside the shooting area, situated face to face with tourists as they enter, pay, shoot, giggle, laugh, and react to their own acts of “firing.” The camera was placed behind bulletproof glass and pulled on a track, scanning the shooting booths as it glided nonchalantly back and forth.

Kim In-whoe

Until the late 1960s, records of Korean shamanism were limited to materials by Japanese folklorists in the 1920s and 1930s and a small number of scholars in Korean Studies. A young educationalist in those days, Kim In-whoe felt the Western educational paradigm was limitedly applied to Korean society and became interested in Koreans’ traditional religious beliefs, or shamanism.

Trailer Project
Trailer Project

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES: MAKING SENSE WHEN THERE'S YOU, NONSENSE, AND LONELINESS / IS DOKDO OUR LAND?