Masterclass

The DMZ International Documentary Film Festival will invite Argentinian world-renowned filmmaker Fernando E. Solanas and Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi and take the opportunity to listen to their film world and philosophy of film. Solanas of The Hour of the Furnaces, the 50-year-old legendary film in the film history, is the living witness of the Third World Cinema movement, and Mograbi presents an interesting example of new political film with unique humor and paradox as tools to dissolve Zionism.

* Ticket Price 5,000 KRW

1. Fernando E. SOLANAS

The event holds the conversation between Argentine master Fernando Solanas and leading Korean documentary director Kim Dong-won. A Journey to the Fumigated Towns, his new film the DMZ Docs presents with The Hour of the Furnaces, addresses in depth the Third World agriculture problem and the food imperialism issue due to the transgenic agricultural model with agro toxins of large multinational food companies such as Monsanto. The Masterclass of Fernando E. Solanas will provide a valuable opportunity to directly hear about the life and works of the documentary master, which will be a vivid testimony to the history of the ‘Third World Cinema’ movement.

• Date Sep 16 (Sun) 17:00
• Venue Megabox Ilsanbellacitta 105
• Moderator KIM Dongwon (Documentary Director)

2. Avi MOGRABI

The event will invite Israeli filmmaker Avi Mograbi to talk about his film world and philosophy with film critic Yoo Unseong. Mograbi’s films have gone through many changes in the style. If his early films are in a first-person narration with a unique paradoxical humor as a tool to dissolve Zionism, his latest films could be regarded as works with more experimental style of documentary. Avi Mograbi’s film world is expected to show an interesting example of a new cinematic struggle.

• Date Sep 15 (Sat) 16:00
• Venue Megabox Ilsanbellacitta 105
• Moderator YOO Unseong (Film Critic)

Lecture

A program to explores the aesthetics, philosophy of documentary different from those of fiction and its contemporary tendencies and theories, it will be especially interesting for cinephiles, critics, researchers and documentary directors.

1. Special Focus 1: Hostile Other in Front of Camera, Hors-champ of Memories

Regarding the films presented in the section ‘Special Focus 1’, Jean-Michel Frodon, a former editor of Cahiers du Cin?ma, analyzes what special mechanisms work for the audience to accept the direct narrative of the historical perpetrators unfolded in the documentary, unlike other art media. The program will be a chance to look in a direction of the documentary while understanding the specifics of the documentary and the troubles of the documentary directors, through this difficult theme ‘Hostile Other in front of camera, Hors-champ of memories’ involving the issue of ethics and spectatorship.

• Title Front, Back, Profile, in the Shadow: Images of the Enemy, To Do and Undo
• Date Sep 18 (Tue) 19:30
• Venue Megabox Baekseok 7
• Lecturer Jean-Michel FRODON (Film Critic)

2. Special Focus 2: Documentary’s Various Experiments in the Form, How Far Could Its Range be Extended?

The documentary has extended its range by actively accepting new media and experimenting with new expression styles. Focusing on the films presented in the section ‘Special Focus 2’, the lecture introduces and analyzes the extensibility of documentary aesthetics: including animated documentary, CCTV-based documentary, VR documentary, and utilization of multi-screen.

• Title Post-Documentary Image’s Testimony
• Date Sep 19 (Wed) 19:30
• Venue Megabox Baekseok 2
• Lecturer CHO Hyeyoung (Programmer, Seoul International Women’s Film Festival)

Special Talk

1. Claude LANZMANN Napalm

The event will have a time to present the recent film Napalm that a passed great master Claude Lanzmann had made during his visit to North Korea and to commemorate his life and films with critic Kwak Yungbin after the screening. Claude Lanzmann, not only a filmmaker but also a name for European intellectuals, had brought about significant changes to European historical studies and history of philosophy through the film Shoah, which he produced over a decade.

• Date Sep 14 (Fri) After the Screening of 19:00
• Venue Megabox Baekseok 7
• Panel KWAK Yungbin (PhD., Cinematic Arts, U. of Iowa / Art Critic)

2. Ruth BECKERMANN The Waldheim Waltz

Ruth Beckermann is a world-renowned Austrian female filmmaker whose retrospective was held all over the world and new film The Waldheim Waltz won the documentary section at the Berlin International Film Festival, although she may be a strange name in Korea. The event will give a chance to learn about her unique film world through the screening of the film, composed solely of archival films, and a special talk with her.

• Date Sep 16 (Sun) After the Screening of 15:00
• Venue Megabox Baekseok 2
• Panel Ruth BECKERMANN (Director of The Waldheim Waltz)

3. Documentary Screened, Documentary Exhibited

In accordance with the current trend that the documentary is ‘exhibited’ as a piece of work in the museum, DMZ docs will project again onto the screen the documentary that has transferred to the museum, through the comparative screening of two works by director PAIK Jongkwan Cyclical Night designed in single-channel projection and Anticipation of the Night in two-channel projection which is frequently used in the museum, and it will give audiences the opportunity to listen to the meaning of the work on the multi-screen and the difference between the screening at the museum and the theater.

• Date Sep 15 (Sat) After the Screening of 16:00
• Venue Lotte Cinema Paju Outlets 6
• PanelPAIK Jongkwan (Director of Cyclical Night and Anticipation of the Night)

Symposium

DMZ International Documentary Film Festival Contact Zone Symposium: Following Moebius Strip

The Symposium is a special additional event that the 10th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival prepares to celebrate the growth of the past decade. It represents the identity of the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival which longs for peace through the documentary and photographic arts facing the realities of world with constant conflict.

*Admission after free ticketing on a first-come-first served basis by sessions on the day of the event

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