"After the most recent martial law proclamation, this constellation seems more luminous than usual—or has the sky just gotten darker?"

Korean Cinema in the Times of Martial Law — @kimchimarx.bsky.social

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Now on @minorliteratures.bsky.social my new essay on Korean cinema’s stormy (and perversely fruitful) history with martial law and censorship.

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My interview with Lee Chang-dong for your weekend reading!
I got to ask him about his literary career on the occasion of the publication of “Snowy Day and Other Stories,” his first short story collection in English translation (by Heinz Insu Fenkl and Yoosup Chang)

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We are pleased to present a new column on international queer cinema. The first is from @kimchimarx.bsky.social on RESURRECTION OF THE LITTLE MATCH GIRL and how its accidental queerness unlocks new possibilities for Korean cinema and language.
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For Reverse Shot’s new column “Queer Radicals,” I wrote about Resurrection of the Little Match Girl and its star Jin Xing, a renowned transgender dancer from China. Jin’s presence expands the horizon of what queer korean cinema and language can be.

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Now on Mubi Notebook, Wang Bing in conversation with Jung Sung-il, one of Korea’s finest film critics. This interview delves deep into Dead Souls, documentarian ethics, and what it means to document survivors of history. Translation by yours truly!

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Take me back 🥲🥲🥲

I reviewed Hong Sangsoo’s A Traveler’s Needs for Film Comment. A wonderful comedy about (mis)translation that relishes in the slipperiness of language and how it can help us unveil seemingly ineffable feelings