Screening Schedule

• 09월 16일 15:30-16:51 Code 321 Megabox Baekseok 3 12 Q&A
• 09월 18일 19:00-20:21 Code 533 Lotte Cinema Paju Outlets 6 12

Synopsis

During 1960-90s, several theaters and public spaces in Seoul and other cities, such as Pagoda theater, Keukdong theater, and Seongdong theater, had been appropriated as the crucial ‘cruising spot’ by male sexual minorities. Now the main stage of cruising has moved from the physical spaces to the virtual fields. It seems there is no spatial validity as the Cruising Spot any longer.

Director

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  IM Cheolmin
  

  빙빙 B-inb B-ing (2016)
  프리즈마 PRISMA (2013)
  골든라이트 Golden Light (2011)
  시크릿가든 Secret Garden (2010)

Review

The Cruising Spot is both a space that can reveal people's identity and a secret space, and also has both inner and outer meaning. The film explores the ambivalence of the Cruising Spot in the physical space, especially in theaters. The paradox of images that can only be seen in the dark, the publicness experienced inside and the simultaneous occurrence of viewing and being viewed are similar to what sex minorities experience in society in a sense. Is the situation where the physical place disappeared and replaced with a virtual space that the thing that happened outside moved to the inside? Dark and light, the external part viewed from inside or the internal from outside. The film speaks of the confrontation and interpenetration of the two concepts. The process of recording the performer's body and voice and that in which the record is shown, they make the viewers experience their interpenetration. The virtualization of physical spots could be a simultaneous representation of many properties apparently different but actually overlapping. [Suan SEOL]

Credits

• PRODUCER  KIM Sangsook
• CINEMATOGRAPY, EDITOR, SOUND  IM Cheolmin
• MUSIC  Last bus

Distribution / World Sales

• IM Cheolmin  minihanul@naver.com