리슨투더시티 도시영화제를 스웨덴 우메아 빌드뮤지엄에서 합니다.

리슨투더시티 아티스트 토크는 2월 10일 입니다.

urban film festival

in Umea, Sweden 

urban film festival of Listen to the City will be held at Bildmuseet as a part

of exhibition “communitas” at BILDMUSEET, Umea, Sweden

Listen to the City’s artist’s talk at BILDMUSEET wil be on 10th of FEB 2013

Communitas

BILDMUSEET 18 NOVEMBER, 2012 – 10 FEBRUARY, 2013

Die Baupiloten (Germany) Jimenez Lai (USA), Jordi Colomer (Spain), 

Listen to the City (South Korea), myvillages.org (Germany, Netherlands, UK), 

m7red (Argentina), Royce Ng (Australia), PKMN (Spain) and Rakett (Norway).

http://www.bildmuseet.umu.se/

www.listentothecity.org

-----

Seoul Urban Film Festival 01/ 02

Urban Film Festival is made for having conversation with neighborhoods about re-development in the cities and the nature. This film festival took place at Duriban 2011 and Art Sonje center. All profit of 1st Urban Film Festival was hed at Duriban and donated for Duriban a restaurant where squatted for 2 years fight back to unfair forcible eviction. 2nd Urban Film Festival was held at Art Sonje, all profits donated to Poi-village re development site in Seoul.  Urban film festival is showing the suppressed history of Seoul. Seoul has been changed dramatically since 1910. Korea was colonized by Japanese for 35 years (1910-45) At that time Japanese changed law about the land so most of people lost their land. Just after the colonization the Korean War (1950-1953) happened. The war killed at least 4,500,000 people destroyed most of country. 1960-80’s of Korea was under the dictatorship, every construction was very fast and for the “economic growth” Koreans gave up humanity sometimes. Seoul became a very big city because most of factories, companies were near Seoul. The size is still growing: now more than 10,000,000 people living in the city. Seoul is a city of contradiction.

Around 1988 when the Seoul Olympic Games held, many poor towns demolished, people were evicted. There are hundreds brutal evictions after 80’s but still those are happening. Korean construction companies like Samsung construction and LG construction and the public construction company hire ‘thugs’ to threaten evictees. The thugs look like Yakuzas, big body guys (sometimes they hire female thugs too) swearing at the evictees and hit people. The worst thing is the police don’t care even evictees get beaten. 2009 January, 5 evictees and one special force police man died in the fire, at Young san district where Daniel Libeskind, MVRDV, SOM’s building will be constructed. The evictees went up a rooftop of one evictee’s building and they made a structure called ‘Goliath (means fighting back to the big power)’ to fight back to thugs and the police. But police rushed to evict them and the police made fire by mistake. This is 2012 but still government hasn’t apologized.

You’ll never believe that the city; shining with high rise is so corrupt and dark.But there are good people who want to fix this. The role of Listen to the City is takes off the simulacra of the Neo-liberalism City. We made very short films about development in Seoul. We also questioning what is a role of architects and what is possibility of architecture of a city.

Organised by Bildmuseet and Listen to the City

Supported by Cinema Dal

* All films below have English subtitle

* Some movies trailers available only

—————————————————————————————————————-

Program list

—————————————————————————————————————-

1)Sanggyedong Olympic

Kim Dong-won, 1988, 27 min KOR/ENG

Synopsis

When it was decided that the 88 Olympics would be held in Seoul, the residents of Sanggye-dong were forced from their homes and they struggled against the government to at least guarantee them new residences. The director filmed the difficulties and the hardships of the relocated residents while living with them for three years between the years 1986 - 1988.

Sanggye-dong Olympic was the first Korean movie that was Invited to the Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival and initiated a new era in Korean documentaries, widening the areas in which the independent film could explore.

No Trailer

2) The Structure of Goliath

Kim Kyung-man, 2006, 17 min

Synopsis

This documentary film explores the reason why ordinary people in South Korea struggle to resist removal in Poongdong and why a Goliath crane is built. With being isolated completely, Poongdong residents and their chairman, CHAE Nam-byung claim shelter against the Korea National Housing Cooperation. Finally, they are promised temporary shelter and permanent rental houses. As the gangsters who bought for removal were discharged of probation at the first trial, CHAE Nam-byung, who struggled just for survival, was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison. Later, at the 3rd trial, he was sentenced with a stay of execution.

trailer: Korean

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DPT4zt2WZRg

3) Seoul Tours , Listen to the City, 2010, 8 min

Members of Listen to the City are late 20 and early 30’s. While we grew up Seoul, we confronted so many contradictions in the city. We been watching out poor neighbors lost their place, places changing into high rises but most of Seoul people want to cover it up.

see the video

http://vimeo.com/15684898

4) Hidden History of Dongdaemun Design Plaza & Plaza

Listen to the City, 2011, 15 min

see the video

http://vimeo.com/43113613

Seoul was chosen as a Design Capital 2010. This short film showing the process of Design

Capital. What the City government did on the city and how it affected citizens. Zaha Hadid was selected for new design complex which is a big problem of Seoul now.

5) 2 Doors (2011)

HONG Ji-you, Kim Il-rhan

101min

The documentary "2 Doors" tracks down the 2009 Yongsan tragedy, which resulted in the death of 5 evictees and one police commando. The evictees, who were cornered into to climbing up a steel watchtower to appeal for their right to live, came back down as cold corpses only 25 hours after they started building the tower. Those who survived became law offenders. A long battle for the truth started as the police statement accused the evictees for causing the tragedy by carrying firebombs up the tower for an illegal and violent protest while on the other side criticism voiced that the governmental authority's excessive use of force had aggravated the tragedy. The heightened tension between the two parties and opposite views of the truth led for the judgment of the government and the eradication of illegal and violent protests by a decision from the court.

Trailer

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sClkcZL2oY0

6) YONGSAN

Director: Jeong-hyun Mun

Editor: Jun-ho Yoon

Composer: Jeong-hyun Mun

South Korea / 2010 / Korean dialogue with English subtitles / Colour / HDCam / 74 mins

Synopsis

On 20 January 2009, five tenants of the Yongsan district, who were forcefully evicted from their homes staged a sit-in and were burned to death in their apartment block. This personal essay documentary by Mun Jyeon Hyun recalls the many movements of Korean civil rights and activism and asks where all the idealism went, even as the atrocities return today. As the director remarks, 'The fire reminds me of a similar incident that I witnessed in 1991. I was a high school student when I saw a college student set himself on fire. That era was the time which people dubbed as the protest of burning oneself to death. During the June 1987 Democratic Movement, TV and newspapers reported the death of Hanyol, who was my neighbour. This documentary is a death portrait of Korea. Where are the people who once occupied streets of Seoul in 1980, 1987, 1991 and 2008? History seems to circulate without further progress, and people living now are not willing to fight for spiritual or social progress anymore. Who is to blame for this?'

No Trailer

—————————————————————————————————————-

7) still alive

Kim Sung-man, 2011, 15min

Synopsis

This is a film about 4 river construction. The government said that main rivers of S. Korea are dead but the river were so beautiful and alive.

about Four Rivers Project

South Korea - Four Rivers Project - dredging, damning and concrete destroying the environment

Four of South Korea’s major rivers and their wetlands - a total area of 8,000 ha – have been damaged by a government project. Some 570 million cubic meters of sand and gravel from a total 691 km of the rivers has been dredged. Sixteen dams have been created. Sand banks have been totally removed and concrete-paving laid along the banks.

The government say that the rationale behind the works is economic - enabling better navigation. However, damns are obstructing natural flow leading to degradation of water supply. The project has failed in one of its main aims, which was to create more capacity to store the rivers' water. It has been implemented prior to proper environmental evaluation and the long term value of the wetlands destroyed. The wetlands are also home to many endangered species such as white-napped cranes and hooded cranes, whose numbers have declined from 3,000 to 1,000 since the Four Major Rivers Project started in 2009.

Local campaigners say that the completion of the Environmental Impact Assessment before the project plans were finalized demonstrates a lack of concern for the wetland system. They say the major rivers are already showing incredible damage and claim a natural disaster resulting from the project is inevitable. They want to prevent further engineering of the river and to start restoring the habitats

—–———————————————————————————————————-

8) River Workers

Kim Jun-ho, Park Chae-eun, 2011, 18 min

This film showing a river site, which on the 4-river construction. This movie show the construction site through perspective of a 25ton truck driver. The construction site used be the baggiest migrant birds habitat in Korea but now it has gone.