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HONG Ki-seon: The Cinema Beyond Suppression
HONG Ki-seon
Korea2009 99min DCP Color
This film is based on a true story. In 1997, a boy is found stabbed to death in the restroom of a restaurant. The prime suspects are released despite numerous testimonies.
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.