2-Day Event Spotlights New Media and China-Korea Rapprochement
The Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) put on its first annual ‘New Media and Korean Cinema’ conference last week (November 10,11), a two-day event exploring new trends in the local industry. During talks by local and global experts and academics, the recurring themes were of the impact of digital technologies on the Korean film industry’s ancillary markets and the rapprochement with the neighboring Chinese film industry.
The event was put on by Daniel Martin, an Associate Professor of Film Studies at KAIST and the co-editor of the book Korean Horror Cinema, who also led a talk on Bong Joon Ho’s
Snowpiercer and Korean sci-fi. Other academics include LEE Hyang-jin (with her talk "Digital Love in Hallyu Cinema"), Mark Morris from Cambridge University (Northerners on Southern Screens: Changing Visions of the Intimate Other), University of Wollongong’s Brian Yecies (Korean Post-Production Cowboys and New Waves of Color on China’s Digital Cinema Frontier), KIM So-young of the Korean National University of Arts, who presented a director’s cut of her new documentary
Heart of Snow: Heart of Blood, and koreanfilm.org founder and Kyunghee University Professor Darcy Paquet (In Search of an Audience: Distribution Channels for Korean Independent Films).
At the end of day one, a roundtable discussing New Media and Korean Cinema was held while the conference concluded with a screening of
Nowhere to Hide (1999) and Q&A with special guest director
LEE Myung-se. Though many subjects were broached during the event, the recurring themes were of the Korean film industry’s burgeoning digital market and its growing ties with China.
The Korean Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) put on its first annual ‘New Media and Korean Cinema’ conference last week (November 10,11), a two-day event exploring new trends in the local industry. During talks by local and global experts and academics, the recurring themes were of the impact of digital technologies on the Korean film industry’s ancillary markets and the rapprochement with the neighboring Chinese film industry.The event was put on by Daniel Martin, an Associate Professor of Film Studies at KAIST and the co-editor of the book Korean Horror Cinema, who also led a talk on Bong Joon Ho’s Snowpiercer and Korean sci-fi. Other academics include LEE Hyang-jin (with her talk "Digital Love in Hallyu Cinema"), Mark Morris from Cambridge University (Northerners on Southern Screens: Changing Visions of the Intimate Other), University of Wollongong’s Brian Yecies (Korean Post-Production Cowboys and New Waves of Color on China’s Digital Cinema Frontier), KIM So-young of the Korean National University of Arts, who presented a director’s cut of her new documentary Heart of Snow: Heart of Blood, and koreanfilm.org founder and Kyunghee University Professor Darcy Paquet (In Search of an Audience: Distribution Channels for Korean Independent Films).At the end of day one, a roundtable discussing New Media and Korean Cinema was held while the conference concluded with a screening of Nowhere to Hide (1999) and Q&A with special guest director LEE Myung-se. Though many subjects were broached during the event, the recurring themes were of the Korean film industry’s burgeoning digital market and its growing ties with China.
