25th(2023)
| Opening Film (1) | Discovery (12) |
| Asian Shorts (20) | I-Teens (5) |
| New Currents (25) | Korean Panorama, Here & Now (19) |
| Polemics: Images, Describing to Resist (16) | Queer Rainbow (6) |
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| Women Making Art: Shouts and Whispers (9) | PARK Nam-ok's 100th Anniversary (5) |
| In Memory of YOON Jeong-hee (2) | Documentary Ock Rang (1) |
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Trouble
Miranda PENNELL
- United Kingdom
- 2023
- Asian Premiere
- 34min
- DCP
- color/black and white
Asian Premiere
SYNOPSIS
While puzzling over aerial photographs from early 20th century Iraq and Egypt, a filmmaker finds herself increasingly unsettled by images that want to share their violent secrets. Moving between the recent past and the distant past, the film explores horror — both real and imagined. The second part of a project that uses archive photographs to explore a history of bombing.
PROGRAM NOTE
Trouble addresses the history of Egypt and Iraq during British colonial rule in the early 20th century through archived photographs and records from the British repository. By blending elements of early horror film sound and invoking myths like the curse of mummies in Egypt, the director brings forth a fusion of essay-like forms with genre characteristics. In this work, the director traces the records and evokes the hidden dark history beneath. The film reveals the violence that lingers in the past and the present, enveloping people in its grip. [KIM Seo-yul]
Director
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Miranda PENNELLMiranda PENNELL
A London-based artist-filmmaker whose work uses images from British state archives to reflect on the legacies of imperialism. Her films emphasize the role of the imagination in the interpretation of historical documents, most recently drawing on genre-fiction as a way of engaging with troubled histories. Her award-winning films have been screened internationally in cinemas, galleries and on broadcast TV. Her recent work has screened at major international film festivals that include London, Rotterdam, Berlin, New York, and Vienna.
