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Daniel HorowitzHow completely bizarre the story is, that Kim Jong Il, future leader of North Korea was heavily involved in cinema, collecting an enormously large collection of film. We learned how he orchestrated the kidnapping of two of the hottest stars of S Korean cinema and forced them to make films. The last film Shin Sang Ok made with his wife Choi Eun Lee was a Godzilla knpck off called Pulgasari. The entire movie is available on Youtube, and apparantly this big monster joins forces with peasants to fight an evil dictator. How ironic.
Daniel HorowitzIt's iteresting that performance art in the US had its heydey in the 1950s and 1960s, when visual artists wrere looking for ways to explore away from the canvas and two dimensions. The Chinese performance artists we saw today certainly seemed to give their entirety to their art, I probably would rather look at a painting of a worker, farmer, and soldier fromthe Mao era than a guy bleeding and chained to the ceiling.
Daniel HorowitzI have to admit I wasn't looking forward to this lecture as I don't regard the K-Pop "revolution" as a significant musical development but more a "prefabricated" commercial venture. Professor Kim's lecture doesn't avoid this aspect of the genre- she dived right into it.
Daniel HorowitzI agree I feel the filmakers were creating empathy on a primordial level by showing us an anguished child crying for a long period of time. Viewers would of course feel sympathy for the child and familty, but they would also gain anger towards the colonial family for not only creating the situation where the tragedy occured, but also by responding so heartlessly to the situation by saying the "brat should be punished".
Daniel HorowitzHello everyone- looks like we have an interesting and eclectic group of educators. Looking forward to meeting everyone tomorrow.
I teach independent studies in LAUSD and my site location is in Venice. I have an art background- my undergraduate was in Fine Art and I have some experience doing storyboards for film and advertising. Art as a subject thankfully is still in the school curriculum under A-G requiremients, but often we teach it from a Western perspective because it's what's in our texts and what we are familiar with. I lokk forward to the workshop.
