On the Juche Idea: North Korean Propaganda, Theirs and Ours
Monday August 17th - 7:30PM
Brecht Forum
451 West Street, New York, NY 10014
For too long a time the propaganda film has been gawked at for its form divorced from its content; its spectacle abstracted from its context. Likewise, it has been misunderstood for its history outside its aesthetics; its message instead of its transmission. In each case the failure is that of liberal arrogance; a blindness to seeing the present in archival footage; an ignorance in seeing the past and not the future; a xenophobia in seeing another people and not your own. Perhaps no one understands this better than the author of On the Art of Cinema (1973), Kim Jong Il. Please join us for a propaganda of the present.
--The Crime of Korea - US Army Signal Corps, 1950, 15 minutes
--The Parade of the Korean People's Army - DPRK, 2002, 30 minutes
--Always Working Together for the People - DPRK, ca. 1993, 60 minutes
--Cunnilingus in North Korea - Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries, 2007, 6 minutes
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 111 minutes | Digital Projection
(All of the Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries videos are available on their website.)