[▲ <Dear Pyongyang>, <Sona, the Other Myself>]
SIFF2022 Independent Film Archive:
Yang Yonghi’s Cinematic Journey Beyond the Border and Silence
Yang Yonghi’s third documentary film, Soup and Ideology (2021), was first released in the DMZ International Documentary Film Festival and screened at SIFF last year. Beyond the logic of the border imposed by the nation-states and the confrontation of Cold War ideology, Soup and Ideology, which embraces the scars left in long silence, puts a period to Yang’s family documentary series shot for nearly two decades. The recent release of the film in Japan and Korea has created a lot of attention, and many audiences have been waiting for the opportunity to see her previous documentaries Dear Pyongyang (2005) and Sona, the Other Myself (2009). The remastered versions of the two films will be introduced for the first time at SIFF. It is expected that they will provide with different resonance from that when they were released first time.
KIM So Hye / Research Professor, Korea University Outreach Center for Korean Linguistic, Literary, and Cultural Studies
▷ SIFF2022 Independent Film Archive: Yang Yonghi’s Cinematic Journey Beyond the Border and Silence
[Independent Film Archive 3]
<Dear Pyongyang> YANG Yonghi | 2005 | Documentary | Color | DCP | 108min
[Independent Film Archive 4]
<Sona, the Other Myself> YANG Yonghi | 2009 | Documentary | Color | DCP | 82min