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10th DMZ Docs(2018)

I AM DOCU



Yes, I Am a Feminist

YUN Dahee, KIM Jihyun

  • Korea
  • 2018
  • 19min
  • ProRes HQ
  • color

World Premiere

Synopsis

Yes, I Am a Feminist is an experimental documentary chronicles director¡¯s self-reflective journey to define feminist activism in East Asia. Through the combining of various activists¡¯interviews and the passage of wannabe feminist directors, the film constantly questions what we want to do and how we can exist.​

Review

Yes, I Am a Feminist is a coming-of-age film following the paths of two female directors seeking for their identity as a feminist. Through confessions of prevalent sexual discrimination and uncomfortable moments they faced while growing up, they realize this problem is not just mine but ours. Through experiencing on-going women¡¯s movements from pro-choice movement, misogynic crimes to Me Too movement, two novice feminists concern about whom at what to say. By default, two directors start to focus on East Asia Women¡¯s movements. Meeting with a Taiwan activist who performs physical equality performances on/off line and Japanese feminism group struggling to alter incorrect definition of ¡®feminist¡¯ in a popular dictionary, they suggests a new movement that can reflect life. Making a film is a process of understanding the world. Through this small and rough documentary, two directors might have found a way of living and an idea of what films they should make. Congratulations on their firm steps, shouting out confidently, ¡®Yes, I Am a Feminist¡¯. [Wook Steve HEO]

Director

  • YUN Dahee

    She left home when she was in high school and stayed in a youth shelter. She felt lost until she found a filmmaking group ¡±Agro¡±. Now she is studying in university, which she hated so much, even having acquired a loan to continue her studies. However, she feels grateful that her life is in technicolor for the first time in her life.

    Known, Unknown (2016)​
    The Close Family (2014)
    Too Bitter To Love (2013)
    The Day (2009)​

  • KIM Jihyun

    Let¡¯s Go, SPENEW! (2016) Mom and Me (2015)​ 

Credit

    HEO Steve Wook

    HEO Steve Wook  ny_film@naver.com