Symposium

DMZ International Documentary Film Festival Contact Zone Symposium:  Following Moebius Strip

The Symposium is a special additional event that the 10th DMZ International Documentary Film Festival prepares to celebrate the growth of the past decade. It represents the identity of the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival which longs for peace through the documentary and photographic arts facing the realities of world with constant conflict.

Hosted by DMZ Docs, Humanities Korea⁺, the RCCZ Research Center at Chung Ang University & Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
Sponsors Ministry of Education, National Research Foundation of Korea
Date Symposium & Screening Sep 17 (Mon)Sep 18 (Tue)
Photo Exhibition Sep 14 (Fri)Sep 18 (Tue)
Venue Lotte Cinema Paju Outlets 4

*Admission after free ticketing on a first-come-first served basis by sessions on the day of the event


Events

Sep 17 (Mon)
10:00—11:30 Conflict and Contact Zones – Punctum of DMZ Press Photography
Talk: CHAE Seungwoo (Photographer)
Panels: KIM Bonggyu (Photographer), PARK Sunyoung (Research Professor, the RCCZ Research Center, Chung-Ang University
* CHAE Seungwoo & KIM Bonggyu’s Photo Exhibition ‘A Rare Look inside DMZ and Troubled Territories of the World: We All Connected’ will be held during this event.
12:00—13:30 Screening of Host Nation (LEE Kowoon, 2016, 90min)
14:00—15:30 Blurring Borders of Journalism and Documentary: Spy Nation, Criminal Conspiracy, Intention
Talk: LEE Seungmin (Visiting Professor, Yong In University)
Panels: NAM Inyoung (Professor, Film Studies at Dongseo University), YANG Hee (Documentary Writer), AN Boyoung(Producer)
16:00—17:30 Documenting Camp Towns and Trajectory of Corporeal Contact Zones:The Women Outside, Remember Me This Way, Tour of Duty, Host Nation
Talk: JEONG Minah (Professor, Department of Theater & Cinema, Sungkyul University)
Panels: LEE Yujung (Research Professor, the RCCZ Research Center, Chung-Ang University), LEE Kowoon (Director of Host Nation)
9월 18일(Tue)
10:00—11:32 Screening of All Live Olive (KIM Taeil / JU Romi, 2016, 92min)
12:00—13:39 Screening of Jane Jin KAISEN’s shorts
Reiterations of Dissent (2011-2016, 77min)
Tale of One or Many Mountains (2017, 22min)
14:00—15:30 Conflict and Contact Zones II – Documenting Eternality in-between Space and Time: War, Ceasefire and Termination
Talk: CHON Woo-hyung (Associate Professor, the RCCZ Research Center, Chung-Ang University)
Panels: KIM Taeil / JU Romi (Directors of All Live Olive), NAM Soo-young (Professor, Korea National University of Arts)
16:00—17:30 Arts of the Contact Zone: Jane Jin KAISEN’s Post-Documentary Aesthetic
Talk: Jane Jin KAISEN (Director)
Panels: PARK Hyun-gwi (Research Professor, the RCCZ Research Center, Chung-Ang University), SEOL Suan (Programmer, Jecheon International Music & Film Festival)