After the screening of Reiterations of Dissent, a very interesting discussion on the building of the naval base in Gangjeong village, Jeju Island, South Korea took place.
Photos from screening of Reiterations of Dissent
Monthly Archives: May 2015
Review of the Ghosts of Jeju
Artist and art writer Paul O’Kane reviews the screening of the Ghosts of Jeju, an independant documentary focusing on a unique peace movement in Gangjeong, Jeju Island, South Korea. It was part of New Cross & Deptford Free Film Festival 2015.
JEJU ISLAND
In trendy, foody, ‘Deli X‘ in Deptford, Soth East London, about a dozen people have gathered on a Monday evening to attend a screening of a film, part of the 2015 New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival. The film is ‘The Ghosts of Jeju’ made on a low budget by American film-maker and activist Regis Tremblay. It tells stories of inhuman crimes and injustices committed on a beautiful island off the South Coast of Korea named Jeju.
Tonight’s hosts are wearing yellow tabards with black letters in English and Korean announcing protest and their affinity with a struggle. Their protest and their struggle is to stop the building of a huge American naval base at Gangjeong, a village on this island, Jeju, beloved by Koreans and by people from all over the world.
The film first documents the iniquitous treatment of the islanders of Jeju…
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Hankyoreh, Changes in sea near Gangjeong village since 2008
Hankyoreh reporter Myung-jin Kim went into sea near Gangjeong village with investigators from Green Korea (녹색연합) and compares the status of sea in 2008 and 2013.
More photos and the full report are available at the Hankyoreh and Huffington Post Korea.
Korea Herald, Film explores stories from Jeju massacre
Jane Jin Kaisen, a visual artist who was adopted from Korea to Denmark, bases her art on questions around memory, history and migration.
It is within this framework that she tackled one of the biggest massacres in modern Korean history ― the Jeju uprising on April 3, 1948.
Kaisen’s film, “Reiterations of Dissent,” opens with Hyun Ki-young recounting his memories of the event. He was just 7 years old when it started. He remembers seeing crows dancing in the wind, when one dropped something from the sky ― someone’s scalp.
The full article is available at: http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20150326001233