Red Maria
2011
Feature 1
Kyung Soon | 2011 | Documentary | Color | HD | 98min
SYNOPSIS
In Korea, Japan and The Philippines, there are many women with diverse jobs and her stories. Among them, this film focuses on women who are called housewives, sex workers, dispatched workers, migrant workers, comfort women, homeless and so on. The camera tracks them as they go about their everyday lives. These women have never met one another, and their lives look quite different from one another. However, their lives are connected across national borders by the one thing they have in common. That's their bodies and labor. How can such different forms of labor be linked to the women's bodies in such a similar way? As we search for answers to this question, we are forced to confront another question: 'the meaning of labor' as an ideology that is reproduced in society.
DIRECTING INTENTION
This documentary is about women's bodies and labor. In global capitalism, many women are expelled to the peripheries of society, where they are labeled housewives, sex workers, dispatched workers, migrant workers, homeless and so on. In the marginalized world of women, their bodies have special meaning. A woman's body becomes a means of labor or a commodity itself. However, sometimes, it is regarded as tainted, hence subject to moral judgement. aims to document these women's bodies that support the existence of global capitalism in the lowliest place, thereby raising the question - from the perspective of women and labor - of what it means socially to "work hard."
FESTIVAL & AWARDS
The 3the DMZ Korean Interantioanl Documentary Film Festival.(2011)
DIRECTOR

Kyung Soon
1999 <민들레 (공동연출)>
2001 <애국자게임 (공동연출)>
2004 <사람은 무엇으로 사는가>
2006 <쇼킹패밀리>
STAFF
Director : Kyung Soon
Producer : Redsnowman
Cinematographer : Kyung Soon, Aram
Editor : Kyung Soon
Sound : Yong-soo Pyo, Eun-ha Koh