The 23rd Busan International Film Festival has been hold from Oct.4th to 13th 2018 at Haeuntae Busan Korea. Artist Kelvin Kyung Kun Park participated the Busan International Film Festival 2018 with his latest 89min Documentary Film “Army”. The work: “Army ” is a portrait of soldiers who serve in the mandatory military service. The relationship between the individual and the collective is rather paradoxical. The video details the intricate bodily movements and emotions of individuals who form a collective body. Unnerving images describe an individual body entangled to the collective, to show an individual body that is divisible.
About the work：
Kelvin Kyung Kun Park’s work: “Army ” is a portrait of soldiers who serve in the mandatory military service. The relationship between the individual and the collective is rather paradoxical. The video details the intricate bodily movements and emotions of individuals who form a collective body. Unnerving images describe an individual body entangled to the collective, to show an individual body that is divisible.
BIFF screening schedule:
10/05 19:00 Lotte Cinema Centum City 10
10/08 19:00 CGV Centum City 2
10/10 14:00 Busan Cinema Center Cinematheque
on the 8th, the 10th has a conversation with the director.（8th, 10th includes Q&A with the director.）
Related Link：
http://www.biff.kr/eng/html/program/prog_view.asp?idx=36247&c_idx=313&sp_idx=471&QueryStep=2
Artist
Kelvin Kyung Kun Park is an artist based in Seoul, Korea, working primarily in the medium of film & video, photography, and installations. He has screened his highly acclaimed first full-length film, “Cheonggyecheon Medley”, 2010, at various international venues, including the Berlin Film Festival, Busan International Film Festival, Warsaw Planet Doc Film Festival, Los Angeles Film Festival, Hot Docs, among others. Park’s video installation works have been shown at the Ilmin Museum of Art in Seoul and Daegu Art Museum, Arko Art Gallery, Opsis Art Gallery, and the 2012 Taipei Biennale. Park followed his debut up with “A Dream of Iron”, which debuted at the Berlin International Film Festival. The film featuring a series of visual tableaux filmed at the Pohang Steel Company and Hyundai Shipyard, won the NETPAC Award at Berlinale and subsequently played at the Museum of Modern Art in New York and at the Sharjah Bienniale.
