Program Note
Kim Yongman, operated “Kim’s Video” in New York, which boasts an extensive collection of over 55,000 items, while in Gwangju, Jo Dae-young, the director of “Homo Cinemacus”, has collected over 50,000 videos and 50,000 books throughout his life.
He has been involved in the Gwangju local film movement for over thirty years, since he formed a film club called “Goodfellas” while working as Defense forces in 1991. From November 2022 to June of this year, around 25,000 items from Jo Dae- young’s extensive VHS collection were exhibited at the Asia Culture Center (ACC) under the title To REWIND is Divine!. In the 1990s, known as the heyday of cinephilia, VHS videos in South Korea served as medium of physical support that replaced celluloid films in Western cinematheque. Inspired by the To REWIND is Divine! exhibition, the production Rewind, Pause, Then, Play tells the story of the true colors of video, as recounted by those “Goodfellas” who gathered together to watch videos instead of films. (SHIN Eun-shil)