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shorts (ii)
tierra y pan
continuous zooming out and dissolves as it tells a simple story of death. no dialogue. landscape and tragedy. carlos armella. mexico. golden lion. 2008.
sniffer
conceptual. art department-intensive. no dialogue. bobbie peers. norway. palme d’or. 2006.
perhaps inspired by
with a little jean-pierre jeunet in there.
donkey
city landscape and reflective narration. b&w. for the first part of the film, each quick shot slowly zooms in. keir burrows. uk. tribeca selection. 2012.
hemingway to read
dateline: toronto
a moveable feast
short (i)
baikonur, amy and child 44
amy (2015)
baikonur
baikonur cosmodrome, kazakhstan
buran program and baikonur photos
buran’s large, abandoned hangar photos
books
child 44 by tom rob smith. serial killer/thriller.
trash, children’s literature (book, 2010; film 2014).
kids solving a mystery in rio. not quite a cidade de deus (paulo lins novel, 1997).
languages
mad max
sunday. in an alleyway near my home in jaesong we find a sad parrandero.
we walk from jaesong south to centum. we have lunch. we cross the orca bridge and follow the suyong to where it meets the pacific in millak. we reach ksu just in time to see:
written and directed by george miller.
kaufman
started reading outliers by malcom gladwell.
woke up and watched interviews with charlie kaufman and videos about synecdoche, new york. synecdoche is one of the richest films i have seen in a long time. kaufman continues to make the most creative and sad films i have ever watched.
samsung hotel, geoje island, south korea. april 2014.
Synecdoche, New York
monsters, communists, kidnappings, the koreas
podcast, movies and books.
kidnapped by n. korea to make films: act one of this american life 556: same bed, different dreams.
film director shin sang-ok 신상옥 and wive, ex-wife and re-wife, actor choi eun-hee 최은희
“pulgasari” japanese poster via wikipedia.
full movie with subtitles
pulgasari. 1985. north korea. godzilla-type film directed by mr. shin.
capitalist/feudal lord-crushing proletarian monsta.
mother and a guest. south korea. 1961. starring mrs. choi.
A Kim Jong-Il Production: The Extraordinary True Story of a Kidnapped Filmmaker, His Star Actress, and a Young Dictator’s Rise to Power by paul fischer
on amazon kindle
shin’s and choi’s memoir: either called kingdom of kim or i am a movie or Chogugŭn Chŏhanŭl Chŏmŏlli (My Motherland is Faraway) published in 1988/2001.
take a look at on the art of cinema (published in 1973) by the late kim jong-il.
cinema center
patterns. centum city. busan. february 2012.
audionetwork
music for docs and film productions.
http://www.audionetwork.com/production-music/production-genre
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