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15th DMZ Docs(2023)

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The Silent Bearers

JEONG Yeoreum

  • Korea
  • 2023
  • 26min
  • 12 +
  • DCP
  • color/black and white

World Premiere

Synopsis

I've organized a tour to explore the regions that were once the Demilitarized Zone in Vietnam. The guide's narrative skillfully creates a rift in time, setting apart the various encounters, remnants, and landscapes. In the midst of this journey, the corroded steel remains resolutely entrenched in the earth, a testament to the enduring marks of history.  

Review

The Silent Bearers is a film by Jeong Yeoreum, who takes a journey of following the traces of the Vietnam War and ruins to explore the sedimentary layer of history and memory and grant meaning to the properties of the places. The clue of narration is the guidance by a guide who was a Vietnam veteran on the third day of the trip and key factors of the format are contrast and conflict of two elements: the two systems, two nations, two votes, and two channels. The footage of peeling paint, abandoned cemeteries, and ghastly cathedrals defamiliarizes the past remains, scenery, and objects. It is interesting to see how a writer who has been making films that speak for her expands the geopolitical contexts of abandoned spaces in Vietnam. The film is screened in a two-channel projection version.   

Director

  • JEONG Yeoreum

    The narrative of the relationship between place and memory is conveyed through the medium of visual imagery. Jeong engages in meticulous observation of narrations from a singular point, dissecting their core bodies and components. Jeong garnered recognition for her short films, Graeae: A Stationed Idea (2020) and The Long Hole (2021).

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