Regards comparés: Koreas, thwarting destinies - Peoples in struggle

Since 2012, Inalco has been a partner of the Jean Rouch Festival, screening films from the Regards comparés selection in the auditorium. This year, screenings will be held from November 25 to 28 on the theme of Korea. All screenings will be followed by a debate with filmmakers and experts.
Plusieurs personnes en doudoune et capuches sont de dos et regardent un coucher de soleil face à la mer, le sol est recouvert de neige.
La Mémoire de la 25ème heure © Kim Sungeun Grace et Freie Universität Berlin‎

People in struggle

2pm - 4.15pm

  • Cheol-ae-kum | An Iron Dream, South Korea | 2014 | 99 min | vostf
    A film by : PARK Kelvin Kyung Kun (South Korea)
    Production and distribution: Kyung Pictures (South Korea)

A look back at South Korea's modernization history in the 1960s, when the nation underwent drastic economic changes to rebuild from the ruins of war. This journey into the past and present of Korean heavy industry, highlighting the working conditions of employees, is also a journey in search of a god of the present time.

Discussion in the presence of Patrick Maurus, professor emeritus of Korean language and literature at Inalco and Nathalie Luca, anthropologist and president of the Ethnographic Film Committee.

Coffee and tea break - 30 minutes

4:45pm - 6:15pm

  • Gukpung, South Korea | 1981 | 17 min | vostf
    A film by : Seoul National University, Film Research Society (South Korea)
    Production and distribution: Yallasyeong Film Research Society (South Korea)

From May 28 to June 1, 1981, one year after the Gwangju massacre, the South Korean government organized a festival entitled "Gukpung 81" in Yeouido Park (Seoul) to divert the people's attention. Members of Yallasyeong, a film club at Seoul National University, take to the streets and record the atmosphere of the time with an 8 mm camera.

 

  • Water Utilisation Taxe, South Korea | 1984 | 35 min | vostf
    A film by : HONG Ki-seon (South Korea)
    Production and distribution: Seoul Film Group, S.Y. Comad (South Korea)

The film, directed by HONG Ki-seon, a founding member of the university film club Yallasyeong,recounts a bitter struggle against the payment of water taxes waged by farmers in the Gurye region (located in the southwest of the country) from November 1983 to January 1984.

Discussion with KOO Moduk, assistant professor in the Department of Art History, Film and Audiovisual Media, Université de Montréal (Canada) by videoconference.

Pause pot de l'amitié - 30 minutes

6.45 - 8.45

  • La Mémoire de la 25ème heure, South Korea, Germany | 2017 | 78 min | vosta
    A film by : KIM Sungeun Grace (South Korea)
    Production: Kim Sungeun Grace and Freie Universität Berlin
    Distribution: Kim Sungeun Grace

On Jeju Island, South Korea, villagers oppose plans to build a military base in Gangjeong and keep being chased away by the police from the temporary camps they improvise. Tired but unwilling to give in, they hope to preserve their coastline and the ecosystem threatened by the project. The hours grow longer, and their relationship with time is no longer the same.

Discussion in the presence of KANG Daehoon, doctoral student in anthropology, and Nathalie Luca, anthropologist and president of the Ethnographic Film Committee.