731: Two Versions of Hell is both a documentary about Japan’s World War II biological weapons facility called Unit 731 and a demonstration of the power of historical revisionism. What constitutes historical truth and the ability of documentary film to represent it?
Category Archives: screening_coldwar
The Act of Killing
August 21, 2014 – 10:22 pm
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.
Apologies
August 21, 2014 – 10:21 pm
The passage of time does not heal all wounds; it cannot settle all accounts or resolve all disputes. But the identities of the perceived perpetrators can change, and a national apology is to document and put on record a symbolic act as a prelude to possible reconciliation and forgiveness.
The Border City 2
August 21, 2014 – 10:20 pm
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.
Cutaways of Jiang Chun Gen ? Forward and Back Again
August 21, 2014 – 10:19 pm
This documentary short is a portrait of an elderly Chinese farmer who was infected by Japanese biological warfare (glanders) in […]
The Last Witness
August 21, 2014 – 10:17 pm
The film was completed right after the Gwangju Uprising in 1980 but this film, which captured the ordeals in the modern history of Korea, became a mess due to censorship. The controversial film was not released to the public until it was restored in 2006.
Mismatched Nose
August 21, 2014 – 10:17 pm
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.
The Missing Picture
August 21, 2014 – 10:16 pm
Today I know that this image must be missing. I was not really looking for it; would it not be obscene and insignificant? So I created it. What I give you today is neither the picture nor the search for a unique image, but the picture of a quest: the quest that cinema allows.
Moranbong, une aventure cor?enne
August 21, 2014 – 10:15 pm
At the beginning of the Korean war, the love story between a young worker and the daughter of a musician unfolds in the city of Kaesong. Moranbong, une aventure cor?enne is intriguing and extraordinary as much for its form as its background of production. It was a film that was almost made by accident.