Two or Three Things We Know about Kim Ki-young is a documentary tribute to the great Korean auteur Kim Ki-young (The Housemaid), whose unique style and idiosyncrasy made his films hallmarks of the first Golden Age of Korean films in the 1960s. Two or Three Things… is a study of Kim’s masterful cinematic influence and features interviews with 22 high-profile Korean directors, wi...
边永柱1993年加入独立纪录片制作组织“蓝色影像”活动，执导反映济州岛和泰国的“妓生观光”现实的《亚洲女性是可以出售的东西》一片，揭示卖淫业同现代人的性意识之间的联系；该片的创作过程中，边永妵遇到了一位为了筹集二战中作为日军随军慰安妇的母亲的手术费而从事卖淫活动的女性，这刺激了她关于慰安妇问题对于当今女性社会意义方面思考的深入。
The last of Byun Young-Joo's comfort women trilogy, this documentary features accounts from Lee Yong-Su, taken as a comfort woman as a teenager and Kim Yun-Sim, who had to hide her shameful past from her daughter. Seven years of passionate production brings out the voices of women immersed in suffering and struggle. My own breathing is an affirmation that their struggle against...
Open City Documentary Festival 2023
In Najeun moksori (The Murmuring), Byun Young-joo, a founding member of the Parituh collective, documents the lives of six elderly women who reside in a communal house in Seoul. All are survivors of forced sexual labour at the hands of the Japanese army during World War II, so-called comfort women; each week they gather with others outside th...
