Artistic director Hong-Joon Kim and staff are at Filmart in Hong Kong scouting for the first edition of the Chungmuro International Musical Film Festival (Chimff), set to launch July 6-11 in Seoul.
In the heart of the city where the South Korean film industry was first located, Chungmu Art Centre (aka Chungmu Art Hall), known for its innovative performing arts events, is to serve as the main location. Further screenings will be held at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (Ddp).
“Of course, musical films will be our main content, but we are aiming for a convergence in cinema and performance art, so we are also looking for fiction and documentaries as well as performances that can go with screenings that reflect this,” said Kim, who previously headed the Chungmuro International Film Festival and the Bucheon (then Pucheon) International Fantastic Film Festival.
In the age of film viewing on multiple devices, “we want to go back to the communal experience...
In the heart of the city where the South Korean film industry was first located, Chungmu Art Centre (aka Chungmu Art Hall), known for its innovative performing arts events, is to serve as the main location. Further screenings will be held at Dongdaemun Design Plaza (Ddp).
“Of course, musical films will be our main content, but we are aiming for a convergence in cinema and performance art, so we are also looking for fiction and documentaries as well as performances that can go with screenings that reflect this,” said Kim, who previously headed the Chungmuro International Film Festival and the Bucheon (then Pucheon) International Fantastic Film Festival.
In the age of film viewing on multiple devices, “we want to go back to the communal experience...
- 3/15/2016
- by hjnoh2007@gmail.com (Jean Noh)
- ScreenDaily
Seoul, South Korea -- Seoul's last old-style, one-screen cinema, soon to be knocked down and replaced by a hotel, played its final movie Wednesday – the Italian classic "The Bicycle Thief" – a moment so emotional for the theater operator that she publicly shaved her head in frustration.
The theater, which opened in 1964, had become a place where mostly elderly moviegoers gathered regularly to watch classic Hollywood and South Korean films and indulge in nostalgia for cinematic days gone by.
As huge multiplexes made it hard to compete financially, the Seodaemun Art Hall played up the one thing the newer theaters could never match – its age. But the theater's attempt to keep business alive based on that shared joy of nostalgia and a sense of community among its elderly patrons came to an end Wednesday.
"My heart is aching because I have to let (the theater) go like this," Kim Eun-ju, 39, the...
The theater, which opened in 1964, had become a place where mostly elderly moviegoers gathered regularly to watch classic Hollywood and South Korean films and indulge in nostalgia for cinematic days gone by.
As huge multiplexes made it hard to compete financially, the Seodaemun Art Hall played up the one thing the newer theaters could never match – its age. But the theater's attempt to keep business alive based on that shared joy of nostalgia and a sense of community among its elderly patrons came to an end Wednesday.
"My heart is aching because I have to let (the theater) go like this," Kim Eun-ju, 39, the...
- 7/11/2012
- by AP
- Huffington Post
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