The Last Laugh

2017

New Choice Shrots 2

CHE Kyeonghun | 2017 | Experimental | Color | DCP | 10min 10sec (E)

SYNOPSIS

Daehan News no.1242 titled The 1st New Mind Celebration, this famous film is a newsreel produced in 1979 for the promotion of The New Mind Movement. It is not unfamiliar that college students, celebrities, and businessmen are mobilized in an athletic meet as volunteers, and they cheer the representative PARK Geun-hye enthusiastically and she smiles and waves her hand at them. Daehan News 79-preparative, New Mind Movement 2-1 is the rest of the film recorded The 1st New Mind Celebration. In this film, which does not have sound, the representative Park smiles and watches the athletic meet and also LEE Myung-bak, the CEO of Hyundai Engineering & Construction Co., appears and reads Park’s face; he was the 17th president of South Korea from 2008 to 2013 and was succeeded by ParkGeun-hye. In Daehan News no.1267, PARK as the first lady leaves the presidential Blue House where she has lived as long as 16 years and returns to her house.

DIRECTING INTENTION

I re-edited it in a form that might have been the original film of The 1st New Mind Celebration with Daehan News, means Korea News, no.1242 and a deleted film, Daehan News 79-preprarative, New Mind Movement 2-1. PARK Geun-hye, CHOI Soon-sil, and LEE Myung-bak appear in the news and I deliberately hid their eyes with black bars to express the government that deceived the people, the mass media that averted their eyes from the truth, and the social situation that forced the people to believe something suspicious; so that the people were unavoidably deceived. Repeating the images with censored eyes and distorted sound reveals their lies more clearly. Nevertheless, they are still influential and enthusiastic appearance of the people who support them has not changed. This mass of power is the deep-rooted corruption of Korean society and politics.

FESTIVAL & AWARDS

World Premiere

DIRECTOR
CHE Kyeonghun

CHE Kyeonghun

2012 <이상한 나라 앨리스 되기>
2013 <시마>
2014

STAFF

Director CHE Kyeonghun
Producer HWANG Kyunmin
Editor CHE Kyeonghun