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Tuesday 18th June
1430 – 1630
G.03, 50 George Square
Abstract: This talk presents an overview of my Activism and Post-activism: Korean Documentary Cinema: 1981-2022 (Oxford University Press, 2024), the first-ever English-language monograph on the South Korean nonfiction film and video practices in the nongovernmental and noncorporate sectors from their foundational period (early 1980s) to the present. Making the tripartite connections between the socio-political history of South Korea (from the 1980s mass anti-dictatorship movement to twenty-first-century labor issues, Truth and Reconciliation, feminism, LGBT rights, environmental justice, and key events such as the Sewol Ferry disaster and the Candlelight Protests), documentary's aesthetics and politics, and the shifting institutional and technological evolution of documentary production and distribution, I argue that what is unique and particular about this forty-year history of South Korean documentary cinema is the intensive and compressed coevolution of activism (which includes social change documentaries aimed to engage social movements in the forms of alternative nonfiction media practice) and post-activism (a set of twenty-first-century documentaries whose formal and aesthetic experimentations gesture toward overcoming and renewing the activist tradition).
Bio: Jihoon Kim is Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at Chung-ang University. His second book, Documentary’s Expanded Fields: New Media and the Twenty-First-Century Documentary, was also published by Oxford University Press in 2022.
The event is free, and registration is not required.
