11 posts from April 2008

12-Step Sharks

I am a nice shark, not a mindless eating machine. If I am to change this image, I must first change myself.
Fish are friends, not food.

Bruce, Anchor and Chum

Kim Ki-Duk Restrospective
April 23–May 8, 2008

The Department of Film presents the first complete U.S. retrospective of writer-director Kim Ki-Duk (b. 1960, Bonghwa), a self-taught maverick Korean filmmaker whose work has enriched international cinema with its luminous intensity. This fourteen-film exhibition includes several features never before seen in the U.S., giving audiences a rare chance to chart the development of the director's sensuous, sensational imagery and wild and haunting narratives.

Kim Ki-Duk was a factory worker, soldier, priest-in-training, and, between 1992 and 1995, a street artist in France, where he discovered cinema through films like Leos Carax's Les amants de Pont-Neuf and Jonathan Demme's The Silence of the Lambs (both 1991). After winning a screenwriting competition in Korea, Kim was able to make, without any formal training, his first feature, Crocodile (1996). Kim's debut film, long out of circulation, heralded the arrival of a furious young self-taught talent with a vision that, brutal though it is, is grounded in redemption. Over the next eleven years, thirteen more films followed, including three of his best-known films in the United States, the libidinous The Isle (2000), the Buddhist-inflected Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring (2003), and an elliptical treatise on invisibility, 3-Iron (2004).

Kim's films cohere into a vivid and compelling body of work characterized by sweeping camera movements and long, richly composed shots. They are populated by characters, uneasy in their social situations, who adopt silence as a protection and whose reactions tend to be brutal; what distinguishes these narratives is what follows this savagery. His films take place in a world sometimes circumscribed by water, but always situated in a cinematic space a couple of degrees sharper than reality. All films are directed by Kim, from South Korea, and in Korean with English subtitles, unless otherwise noted.

MoMA Exhibition "Kim Ki-Duk":
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=8164

Related Screenings:
http://www.moma.org/exhibitions/exhibitions.php?id=8164#screenings

''Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter...and Spring'' review by NY Times:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E01E6DA1639F932A05750C0A9629C8B63

Working on disposable digital video let's you be a bit more lax because retakes cost you nothing but time, but also tend to sacrifice a sense and need for focus and foresight about what needs to be done.

Otto Buj.

디지털 시대 속 우리가 가장 헤프게 소비하는 것은 시간.

#0
봄이다 봄이다 봄이다 봄이다 봄이닷!

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블로그야, 우리도 봄 분위기 함 내보쟈! (나도 스킨 바꿈ㅋㅋㅋ)
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페퍼톤즈.
첨에는 뭔가 2% 부족하다 싶었던 그들의 음악.
그러나, 그게 아니었던거다. 그게 그들 음악의 매력이고, 더군다나 지금 이 계절에 딱! 맞는다는거.
오호라.
음악의 문제가 아니라 날씨의 문제였구나-ㅎㅎ
밝고 경쾌한, 봄에 너무 잘 어울리는 싸운드.
축 2집 발매!

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그 동안 글 올리고 싶어서 손꾸락이 근질근질했어염>_<
하고 싶은 말이 참 많았는데 아이씨 이거 어떻게 다 쓰나;
쓰고 싶던 얘기 다 기억이나 하려나...

#1.5
두서 없는거다 그냥 막 가자-_-;

#2
에쎄이 쓰다 말려버린 문제의 동영상. ㅋㅋㅋㅋ

The difference between reality and theory is that in reality mercantalism and economic nationalism has always trumped theoretical free trade throughout history. Free trade looks good with adam smith but his way has not been copied by countries that achieved economic might.

Tarnopol:

Hard to do better than this; real economics, not some Chicago-boy (let alone that moron/mouthpiece-of-power Thomas Friedman) fantasy world.

i have good news :)