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Review of the Ghosts of Jeju

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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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Korea Herald, Film explores stories from Jeju massacre

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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

Free screening of “the Ghosts of Jeju”, London

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Award winning independent documentary focussing on a unique peace movement on Jeju Island, South Korea. Farmers, fishers, priests, nuns and young activists struggle to prevent construction of a huge naval base, part of Obama’s military ‘pivot to Asia’, on their idyllic island. Film Maker Regis Tremblay carefully uncovers US lead civilian massacres on Jeju Island before and during the Korean War to explain villagers’ resistance to militarisation of what the Korean government named, ‘the Island of World Peace’.

This free screening is part of the New Cross and Deptford Free Film Festival 2015. Deli X will be serving Korean food and beer before the screening. Their will be a short Skype Q&A with director Regis Tremblay after the screening.