kansassire: My Brothers and Sisters in the North, 2016, Sung Hyung Cho the aesthetics of DPRK here r
kansassire: My Brothers and Sisters in the North, 2016, Sung Hyung Cho the aesthetics of DPRK here remind me a lot of mid 90s China - tier 4 city mid 90s China. the exact moment I was thinking the (South Korean born) director’s outfit looked like something one of my aunts would wear, N turned to me and said “I bet you like a lot of what the director is wearing” and ,,, he’s not wrong—before I go too far down the rabbit-hole of aestheticizing politics/political economy, my favourite part is when the woman interviewed on the beach from Patriotic Clothing Factory says the name in North Korea for what she does is “fabricator” and that her dream would be to do the same as what she is currently doing, but also to make special clothes that others don’t. the directors says In South Korea that is called a designer - a designer designs; a tailor sews patterns. and the woman says Oh I want to create the clothes and sew the clothes, everything.—most of all I like this bc of the director’s unquestioning assumption of the interiority of North Koreans. as in, its existence is automatically a given. in addition to their attitudes towards the state rather than in spite of. low bar, I know. but rarely cleared! -- source link
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