IKS Film Screening: Kim Dong-won's "Repatriation”

October 9, 2014

4:00PM - 6:30PM

Mendenhall Lab, room 100 (125 S. Oval Mall)

Add to Calendar 2014-10-09 16:00:00 2014-10-09 18:30:00 IKS Film Screening: Kim Dong-won's "Repatriation” Screening of “Repatriation” with Q/A from Dong-won Kim AbstractDocumentary Film Director Kim Dong-won’s 10-year making of Repatriation begins with his 1992 encounter with two former North Korean spies. They were among the long-term political prisoners that never denounced their allegiance to communism and North Korea. Released from prison after three decades, they were given limited resource and freedom to live out their remaining years. Starting from their lives in South Korea to their repatriation home in the north, Kim's film illuminates their highly politicized lives torn between home and home away from home. Born in 1955, Kim Dongwon graduated from Sogang University with a major in Communication and Media. After finishing his graduate study in film directing at Sogang, Kim trained under the directors Yi Jangho, Chung Jiyoung, and Chang Seonu. His work is rooted in his humanitarian love for the disadvantaged and marginalized. With independent film as his creative venue, Kim informs the cause and effect of social and political injustice. In Sangyedong Olympic (1988), he stands on the side of the urban poor driven out of their village marked for construction of the signature Olympic Stadium for the 1988 Seoul Olympic. In Repatriation, Kim’s masterful documentation of the paradoxicalexistence of the repatriates as microcosmic reality of Korea’s painful division won the 2004 Sundance Freedom of Expression Award. Kim’s other acclaimed works includes: If You Were Me 2 (다섯 개의 시선, 2005), 63 Years On (끝나지 않은 전쟁, 2008). BioKim Dong-won was born in 1955 in Seoul, South Korea. He graduated from Sogang University, majoring in mass communication, and has since worked as an assistant director and as a documentary filmmaker. In 1991, Kim founded the documentary film collective P.U.R.N. Production and has since produced and directed about thirty documentaries. He spoke with The Asia Society about the making of "Repatriation," his most recent documentary. Kim Dong-won is currently professor of film at Korean National University of Arts. Mendenhall Lab, room 100 (125 S. Oval Mall) OSU ASC Drupal 8 ascwebservices@osu.edu America/New_York public

Add to Calendar 2014-10-09 16:00:00 2014-10-09 18:30:00 IKS Film Screening: Kim Dong-won's "Repatriation” Screening of “Repatriation”  with Q/A from Dong-won Kim AbstractDocumentary Film Director Kim Dong-won’s 10-year making of Repatriation begins with his 1992 encounter with two former North Korean spies. They were among the long-term political prisoners that never denounced their allegiance to communism and North Korea. Released from prison after three decades, they were given limited resource and freedom to live out their remaining years. Starting from their lives in South Korea to their repatriation home in the north, Kim's film illuminates their highly politicized lives torn between home and home away from home. Born in 1955, Kim Dongwon graduated from Sogang University with a major in Communication and Media. After finishing his graduate study in film directing at Sogang, Kim trained under the directors Yi Jangho, Chung Jiyoung, and Chang Seonu. His work is rooted in his humanitarian love for the disadvantaged and marginalized. With independent film as his creative venue, Kim informs the cause and effect of social and political injustice. In Sangyedong Olympic (1988), he stands on the side of the urban poor driven out of their village marked for construction of the signature Olympic Stadium for the 1988 Seoul Olympic. In Repatriation, Kim’s masterful documentation of the paradoxicalexistence of the repatriates as microcosmic reality of Korea’s painful division won the 2004 Sundance Freedom of Expression Award. Kim’s other acclaimed works includes: If You Were Me 2 (다섯 개의 시선, 2005), 63 Years On (끝나지 않은 전쟁, 2008). BioKim Dong-won was born in 1955 in Seoul, South Korea. He graduated from Sogang University, majoring in mass communication, and has since worked as an assistant director and as a documentary filmmaker. In 1991, Kim founded the documentary film collective P.U.R.N. Production and has since produced and directed about thirty documentaries. He spoke with The Asia Society about the making of "Repatriation," his most recent documentary. Kim Dong-won is currently professor of film at Korean National University of Arts.      Mendenhall Lab, room 100 (125 S. Oval Mall) East Asian Studies Center easc@osu.edu America/New_York public

Screening of “Repatriation” with Q/A from Dong-won Kim

Abstract
Documentary Film Director Kim Dong-won’s 10-year making of Repatriation begins with his 1992 encounter with two former North Korean spies. They were among the long-term political prisoners that never denounced their allegiance to communism and North Korea. Released from prison after three decades, they were given limited resource and freedom to live out their remaining years. Starting from their lives in South Korea to their repatriation home in the north, Kim's film illuminates their highly politicized lives torn between home and home away from home. Born in 1955, Kim Dongwon graduated from Sogang University with a major in Communication and Media. After finishing his graduate study in film directing at Sogang, Kim trained under the directors Yi Jangho, Chung Jiyoung, and Chang Seonu. His work is rooted in his humanitarian love for the disadvantaged and marginalized. With independent film as his creative venue, Kim informs the cause and effect of social and political injustice. In Sangyedong Olympic (1988), he stands on the side of the urban poor driven out of their village marked for construction of the signature Olympic Stadium for the 1988 Seoul Olympic. In Repatriation, Kim’s masterful documentation of the paradoxical
existence of the repatriates as microcosmic reality of Korea’s painful division won the 2004 Sundance Freedom of Expression Award. Kim’s other acclaimed works includes: If You Were Me 2 (다섯 개의 시선, 2005), 63 Years On (끝나지 않은 전쟁, 2008).

Bio
Kim Dong-won was born in 1955 in Seoul, South Korea. He graduated from Sogang University, majoring in mass communication, and has since worked as an assistant director and as a documentary filmmaker. In 1991, Kim founded the documentary film collective P.U.R.N. Production and has since produced and directed about thirty documentaries. He spoke with The Asia Society about the making of "Repatriation," his most recent documentary. Kim Dong-won is currently professor of film at Korean National University of Arts.