Documentary
This year’s Documentary strand presents 3 works in which participatory activism, mainstream style, and experimentation within the contemporary art world intersect.
LKFF 2022: Documentary – Programmer’s Note
2022 marks the 40th anniversary of the release of Pannori Arirang (1982). Though there’s room for dispute, the film is widely understood to be Korea’s very first ‘independent’ documentary, and was also an original work of the Seoul Film Collective, formed by key members of the Seoul National University ‘Yalashang’ film club. Though there had been documentaries before this, they were at best gov...
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LKFF 2022: The 2nd Repatriation
Sat 05 Nov, 6:00pm
ICA
Kim Dongwon is an unusual documentarist, who despite his awareness of the urgency of a given situation, rarely responds to it right away. He has often been classed as an ‘activist’, but the way in which he manifests as an artist is considerably slow and cautious. Two decades on, The 2nd Repatriation is the sequel to his 2003 film Repatriation, which examined the lives of long-term unconverted p...
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LKFF 2022: I Am More
Sun 13 Nov, 2:00pm
Rio Cinema
A promising ballerina, More gave up the dream and has been working as a drag queen artist for 20 years. One day, John Cameron Mitchell, in Seoul for a run of Hedwig and the Angry Inch, catches More’s show. Soon after More is invited to perform in New York for the 50th anniversary of Stonewall Uprising. In this, his third documentary film, Lee Il-ha appears to have met a protagonist who fully re...
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