Kubo Walks the City

Synopsis

Like an ‘ethno-detective’, you follow the footsteps of Kubo, a Korean writer in his urban flanerie in Seoul in 1934, when Korea was under Japanese occupation. You discover the city through the press caricatures mocking the shortcomings of a part of Korean society emerging from the poverty and archaisms of the past, and discovering with reckless the modernity and prosperity coming with the occupation. Then you are confronted with the resistance of another part of the population, through the story of the first Korean athlete to win an Olympic medal in Berlin in 1936, seeing how this resistance was erased by censorship.

Director

Biography

Hayoun Kwon studied at Le Fresnoy Art School in France and co-founded Innerspace VR. Fascinated by virtual reality, a medium that allows us to question the truth, she has been developing work on memory, and its rendering into VR, for several years now. Her work includes one of the first documentaries in VR: D.M.Z., Memories of a No Man's Land and more recently the installations Gauguin Inner Journey for Grand Palais/Musée d'Orsay in Paris, Peach Garden (distributed by Diversion Cinema), Xth Attempt for the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Seoul and Kubo Walks the City. Her projects have been awarded at numerous festivals: Epic Grant 2019, Award of Distinction Computer Animation Ars Electronica, Linz, 2018 - 1st Prize for Jury of the Ministry for Culture, Oberhausen Int. Short Film Festival, 2016 - Bronze Experience Oculus Mobile VR Jam, 2015 - Prix Découverte des Amis du Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2015 - ARTE Creative Newcomer Award, Osnabrück, 2014.

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Credits

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Director : Hayoun KWON
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Graphic design : Adrien CACHINHO
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Animation : Samuel ARBOUILLE, Lena LOTH
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Cast : Jake BYUN (KR), Corentin KOSCAS (FR & ENG)
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Producer : Richard TURCO
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Lead developer : Julien LE CORRE

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