Republic of Korea Tag Archive

Animation

Mirror in Mind

Seunghee Kim delves into despair, insecurity and battles fought to make sense of the world and herself in introspective short 'Mirror in Mind'

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Documentary

Nils Clauss Decodes the Lexicon of 70s South Korean Factory Workers in ‘Bikini Words’

Director Nils Clauss guides us through the commissioning and production process of his Korean factory town workers' linguistics documentary ‘Bikini Words’.

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Art & Fashion, Documentary

Kwangho Lee Discusses the Merits of Art Innocence in Documentary ‘Translating Furniture’

Nils Clauss and Adam Hobbs co-direct artist documentary Translating Furniture – a poetic film in which furniture artist Kwangho Lee contemplates the purity

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Animation

The Big Boy

Written, directed and animated by Lee Kyu-Tae, THE BIG BOY is the charming tale of a friendly giant whose eagerness to help soon leads to him being an outcast

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Animation, Asides

Studio Shelter

Two fun animated shorts showcasing two totally different styles from South Korea’s Studio Shelter.

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Animation

The Loner

With The Loner South Korean creative studio Sticky Monster Lab haven’t just created a quirky, stylish short, but a detailed animated world similar to the

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Film Festival, Live Action

SXSW2011: Umshini Wam/Paranmanjang

I realise you’re still waiting to hear about just what I’ve been seeing and who I’ve been talking to at SXSW this year – excuse

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN IFFR2011: Bleak Night – Yoon Sung Hyun

Competing for the Tiger Awards at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, Yoon Sung Hyun’s Bleak Night shows how petty squabbles amongst school

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Film Festival, Live Action, Podcasts

DN IFFR2011: The Journals of Musan – Park Jung-Bum

Park Jung-Bum’s accomplished debut feature The Journals of Musan was awarded both the FIPRSECI Jury Award and a Tiger Award at the International Film

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Film Festival, Live Action

IFFR2011: End of Animal

Tales of the apocalypse are often told in epic gravitas and loud explosions, yet a recent trend of filmmaking has searched for strategies to dig under our skin

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Live Action

Thirst – Park Chan-Wook

The creature known as Vampire has featured in films for around 100 years now and the vampire movie has gone through many forms and various stages of

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Film Festival, Live Action

DN LFF09: Mother – Bong Joon-ho

South Korean cinema has been going from strength to strength in recent years and if 'Mother' is anything to go by, it isn’t going to stop anytime soon.

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