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HONG Ki-seon: The Cinema Beyond Suppression

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HONG Ki-seon

Korea1984 32min DCP Color

Synopsis

Reframing the farmers’ movement in Jeon-Nam Province with a reconstruction of interviews and events. World Premiere of the digitally remastered version.

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HONG Ki-seon

Hong Ki-seon, who is part of the first generation of the Korean independent film movement, made the initial independent film organization named ‘Seoul Film Collective’(later on to be known as ‘Seoul Visual Collective’). He directed Cutting the Sorrow With a Knife Stuck in the Chest (1992), which was his debut film, and The Road Taken (2003), Where the Truth Lies (2009). The Discloser (2016) is his posthumous work.