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HONG Ki-seon: The Cinema Beyond Suppression
HONG Ki-seon
Korea1992 98min 35mm Color
A man accepts a job on a shrimp fishing boat unaware that he is being set up for slave labor along with the rest of the crew of social outcasts. He struggles to escape from the misery.
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.