Comments on: City films at the VIFF – Get Out of the Car, and The Indian Boundary Line https://vancouverpublicspace.ca/2010/10/05/city-films-at-the-viff-get-out-of-the-car-and-the-indian-boundary-line/ Mon, 28 Aug 2017 20:00:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.0.38 By: City Films @ the VIFF (Pt. 2): Defiant Brasilia « VPSN Public Space Blog https://vancouverpublicspace.ca/2010/10/05/city-films-at-the-viff-get-out-of-the-car-and-the-indian-boundary-line/#comment-76 Sat, 09 Oct 2010 00:04:43 +0000 http://vancouverpublicspace.wordpress.com/?p=594#comment-76 […] VIFF yesterday. This one presented another pastiche of urban life, but unlike Get Out of the Car (reviewed previously) the focus of the assemblage is a network of everyday interactions taking place in a low income […]

]]> By: Jason V https://vancouverpublicspace.ca/2010/10/05/city-films-at-the-viff-get-out-of-the-car-and-the-indian-boundary-line/#comment-75 Thu, 07 Oct 2010 05:54:26 +0000 http://vancouverpublicspace.wordpress.com/?p=594#comment-75 I can add a mini review of “Kimu; the Strange Dance” to the list of urban films at #VIFF. I saw it this afternoon at the film’s final screening, and I can attest; it is a very contemporary and avant guard work dealing with a host of subject matter relevant to the VPSN.

Shot in Seoul, S. Korea, issues in the film include architectural and historical conservation; authenticity vs Disneyfication; memory, and the subconscious of place; and the after effects of a culture of surveillance. Much of the film is shot in a building that was previously used by the Kimusa (the Defence Security Command, Korea’s CIA). The title of the film was explained at the director’s Q&A; Kimu is a play on the word Kimusa; the sound of the word Kimu in Korean also literally means ‘strange dance’, which refers to the gestural curves and sweeping lines of a traditional Korean skyline, as opposed to the straight rigid silhouette of a city of modern skyscrapers.

It is a quiet film with scarce commentary and relatively short at just 62 minutes, but fans of urban exploration might just see this film as the perfect ticket into the heart of modern day Seoul.

http://www.viff.org/tixSYS/2010/films/2989

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