Presented By: Nam Center for Korean Studies
Nam Center Special Screening | "Songs from the North" with Director Soon-Mi Yoo
Speaker: Soon-Mi Yoo, Assistant Professor of Film/Video, Massachusetts College of Arts
2014 | 72 minutes | Directed by Soon-Mi Yoo
Join us for a screening of award-winning documentary ‘Songs from the North’ followed by a Q&A session with acclaimed Director and Assistant Professor of Film/Video at Massachusetts College of Arts Soon-Mi Yoo.
SONGS FROM THE NORTH is an essay film which looks differently at the enigma of North Korea, a country typically seen only through the distorted lens of jingoistic propaganda and derisive satire. Interweaving footage from her three visits to North Korea, together with songs, spectacle, popular cinema and archival footage, SONGS FROM THE NORTH tries to understand, on their own terms, the psychology and popular imaginary of the North Korean people and the political ideology of absolute love which continues to drive the nation towards its uncertain future. To look closely and objectively at North Korea, a country that challenges our most fundamental assumptions about the human condition, is ultimately to question the meaning of freedom, love and patriotism.
Check out this review on Indiewire. http://www.indiewire.com/article/locarno-review-north-korean-history-takes-on-personal-dimension-in-songs-from-the-north-20140810
And view the trailer here: https://youtu.be/Lv9K9ywqOlc
Free | Open to the public | In English and Korean with English subtitles
2014 | 72 minutes | Directed by Soon-Mi Yoo
Join us for a screening of award-winning documentary ‘Songs from the North’ followed by a Q&A session with acclaimed Director and Assistant Professor of Film/Video at Massachusetts College of Arts Soon-Mi Yoo.
SONGS FROM THE NORTH is an essay film which looks differently at the enigma of North Korea, a country typically seen only through the distorted lens of jingoistic propaganda and derisive satire. Interweaving footage from her three visits to North Korea, together with songs, spectacle, popular cinema and archival footage, SONGS FROM THE NORTH tries to understand, on their own terms, the psychology and popular imaginary of the North Korean people and the political ideology of absolute love which continues to drive the nation towards its uncertain future. To look closely and objectively at North Korea, a country that challenges our most fundamental assumptions about the human condition, is ultimately to question the meaning of freedom, love and patriotism.
Check out this review on Indiewire. http://www.indiewire.com/article/locarno-review-north-korean-history-takes-on-personal-dimension-in-songs-from-the-north-20140810
And view the trailer here: https://youtu.be/Lv9K9ywqOlc
Free | Open to the public | In English and Korean with English subtitles
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