Synopsis

It explores ways in which trauma is passed on from previous generations to the present through a sense of being haunted. Following a group of international adoptees and other women of the Korean diaspora, the film uncovers how the return of the repressed confronts and destabilizes narratives that have been constructed to silence histories of pain and violence inflicted upon 3 generations of women and children.

Director

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  Jane Jin KAISEN
  

  Remains(2018)
  Strange Meetings(2017)
  Island of Stone(2011)
  Retake Mayday(2011)
  Orientity(2004)

Review

The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger focuses on women groups invisible in Korean modern history: the former comfort women during the Japanese occupation, women employed around US military bases, and transnational adoptees under Park Junghee's regime. They have existed in different ways at different times, but in fact, they are collectively used and ignored at the national level. In the framework of colonialism, dictatorship, and patriarchy, they are all victims of national projects. The film redistributes old archival materials and documents with the voices of 12 women. Their voices are on the one hand a proof of their existence and on the other hand, the devices for rewriting Korean modern women's history. Director Jane Jin Kaisen develops her identity of the Korean-Dutch adoptee from the personal issue to social structures in the dimension of academia and art and is looking at the overall history of Korean society. The film passes the boundaries between essay films and history books, crossing metaphor and indictment like the title. [LEE Seungmin]

Credits

• PRODUCER  incisions
• CINEMATOGRAPY, EDITOR, MUSIC  Jane Jin KAISEN, Guston SONDIN-KUNG
• SOUND  Mike METZGER VOICEOVER Grace M. CHO, Isabelle, Jane Jeong TRENKA, Jennifer Kwon DOBBS, Maja Lee LANGVAD

incisions

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