The narrative of the film is based on an oral memory about a real event that happened in the 1970s in Jinan in Jeonbuk Province, South Korea. In the film, Haejun JO and KyeongSoo LEE discover a small boat in reclaimed land near a US military base in the city of Gunsan.
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.
Jesse Jones’ 16mm film The Spectre and the Sphere evokes the spectres of ideology and amplifies residual voices that haunt the cultural vessels of history. It examines how the spaces of our popular imagining, such as the theater and the cinema, are also containers of historical and political impulses.
Thus the heaven and earth lost their colors and the sun and the moon lost their light.
They are no different from the elderly women we see everyday. However, they are all marked by pain and sorrow from their shared history of being “comfort women” during World War II. They became subject to prejudice in their own homeland after their return to Korea.
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.