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The Red Filter is Withdrawn.

The Red Filter is Withdrawn.

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 2, 2020

Runtime

0h 12m

Genres

Documentary

Original Title

“레드필터가 철회됩니다.”

Director

Kim Minjung

Description

If you look into the entrance of one of the huge caves on the Korean island of Jeju, it looks like a camera lens. If you walk into the cave, it looks like a screen, a rectangle showing clouds and white light, just like a film. Director Kim Minjung delves into the bloody history of Jeju, where tens of thousands were killed in a massacre in 1948. The camera follows the traces in the landscape, sometimes transformed by a strident, distance-creating red light, accompanied by a commentary by avant-garde filmmaker Hollis Frampton. Film as a means to address history and its taboos.