SIFF2021 Independent Film Archive: Outsiders, from Periphery to Center

[▲ clockwise rotation <Straw Shoes>, <Underground Sky>, <Daughter of Mobius>, <Barricade>, <Three Friends>, <That Summer>]

SIFF2021 Independent Film Archive:

Outsiders, from Periphery to Center

Independent Film Archive project re-examines the past and stirs up newly the present of independent films. This year’s theme is Outsider. Four short films commonly capture the contrast and darkness of the city of Seoul in 1970s and the early 1980s. It is no coincidence that all the directors entered Chungmuro after they went through their respective film movements, fundamentally innovating Korean films, and that became the mainstream of the 1990s Korean Cinema Renaissance. The young filmmakers, who were outsiders as the characters in their films, literally moved from periphery to center. Since the mid-1990s, various independent films that absorbed the possibility of young films began to be produced. Since the filmmakers could lead the production except capital raising, Three Friends and Barricade boldly included characters that did not exist before in previous Korean films.

SIFF2021 Festival Director, KIM Dong-hyun

▷ SIFF2021 Independent Film Archive: Outsiders, from Periphery to Center List◁

[Independent Film Archive 1]
<Straw Shoes> KIM Hongjun, HWANG Juho | 1977 | Documentary | Color | DCP | 11min 51sec
<Underground Sky> KANG Je-kyu | 1983 | Fiction | Color | DCP | 12min 41sec
<Daughter of Mobius> KIM Eui-suk | 1981 | Fiction, Documentary | B/W | DCP | 14min 58sec
<That Summer> KIM Dong-bin | 1984 | Fiction | Color | DCP | 35min