Seoul is currently playing host to a movie festival that lets people enjoy a select set of Korean independent films and documentaries from around the world.
The Seoul Museum of History will screen some rare independent movies and international documentaries through to the end of the year during the Variety Film Festival, or Dayang Gaksaek Film Festival in Korean. The festival is comprised of a total of four events: the Museum Embraces Independent Films; the Festival with an Analog Sentiment; the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival; and, lastly, the Special Screening.
Among the Korean independent films to be showcased at the festival, “Spirits’ Homecoming” is a 2015 film that sheds new light on the issue of sexual slavery during colonial times. The film will be screened at 4 p.m. every Wednesday.
Starting July 5, movies filmed using a 35 millimeter camera will play at 2 p.m. on every Tuesday and Thursday. There will be a total of 12 works by Japanese film producer Mikio Naruse (1905-1969), including “Wife! Be Like a Rose” and “Scattered Clouds.”
Festival-goers will also be able to watch six documentaries from around the world. “Landfill Harmonic” tells the story of a youth orchestra in Paraguay where the violins and cellos are made from recycled objects like used cans. The young musicians were so poor that their neighbors created the makeshift musical instruments for them. Come and watch these stories at 2 p.m. on the second Saturday of each month from May 14 until October.
There will also be films that chronicle the transformation of Seoul from the 1920s through to the 2000s. “Forgotten Memories of Seoul” is a collection of pictures and historical records, some from the U.S., Russia and Germany, that reminds viewers of the Seoul of the past. Among the historical records there's one from the St. Ottilien Archabbey in Germany that shows what the capital looked like in the 1920s.
"Forgotten Memories of Seoul" will bring the past back to life at 2 p.m. on every Tuesday and Saturday from Dec. 3 to 31.
All the screenings will take place in the auditorium on the first floor of the museum in Jongno-gu District, Seoul.
More information can be found at the link below.
http://www.museum.seoul.kr/www/NR_index.do?sso=ok
By Sohn JiAe
Korea.net Staff Writer
Photos: Busan Cinema Center, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival Association
jiae5853@korea.kr
The Seoul Museum of History will screen some rare independent movies and international documentaries through to the end of the year during the Variety Film Festival, or Dayang Gaksaek Film Festival in Korean. The festival is comprised of a total of four events: the Museum Embraces Independent Films; the Festival with an Analog Sentiment; the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival; and, lastly, the Special Screening.
Japanese filmmaker Mikio Naruse’s ‘Scattered’ is to be screened at 2 p.m. on Aug. 9, part of the Variety Film Festival at the Seoul Museum of History.
Among the Korean independent films to be showcased at the festival, “Spirits’ Homecoming” is a 2015 film that sheds new light on the issue of sexual slavery during colonial times. The film will be screened at 4 p.m. every Wednesday.
Starting July 5, movies filmed using a 35 millimeter camera will play at 2 p.m. on every Tuesday and Thursday. There will be a total of 12 works by Japanese film producer Mikio Naruse (1905-1969), including “Wife! Be Like a Rose” and “Scattered Clouds.”
Festival-goers will also be able to watch six documentaries from around the world. “Landfill Harmonic” tells the story of a youth orchestra in Paraguay where the violins and cellos are made from recycled objects like used cans. The young musicians were so poor that their neighbors created the makeshift musical instruments for them. Come and watch these stories at 2 p.m. on the second Saturday of each month from May 14 until October.
The Variety Film Festival at the Seoul Museum of History is screening ‘Landfill Harmonic,’ a documentary that tells the story of a Paraguayan youth orchestra that uses musical instruments made from recycled material. It will be shown on Aug. 13 at 2 p.m.
‘The Malagasy Way’ is one of the documentaries that will be shown during the Variety Film Festival at the Seoul Museum of History. It tells the story of some of the poverty-stricken people of Madagascar. It will be shown at 2 p.m. on Sept. 10.
There will also be films that chronicle the transformation of Seoul from the 1920s through to the 2000s. “Forgotten Memories of Seoul” is a collection of pictures and historical records, some from the U.S., Russia and Germany, that reminds viewers of the Seoul of the past. Among the historical records there's one from the St. Ottilien Archabbey in Germany that shows what the capital looked like in the 1920s.
"Forgotten Memories of Seoul" will bring the past back to life at 2 p.m. on every Tuesday and Saturday from Dec. 3 to 31.
All the screenings will take place in the auditorium on the first floor of the museum in Jongno-gu District, Seoul.
More information can be found at the link below.
http://www.museum.seoul.kr/www/NR_index.do?sso=ok
By Sohn JiAe
Korea.net Staff Writer
Photos: Busan Cinema Center, DMZ International Documentary Film Festival Association
jiae5853@korea.kr
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