Peter Bo Rappmund’s PSYCHOHYDROGRAPHY is one of the highlights of KAFFNY 2011
KOREAN AMERICAN FILM FESTIVAL NEW YORK
Clearview Chelsea Cinemas, 260 West 23rd St. between Seventh & Eighth Aves.
White Box, 329 Broome St. between Bowery & Chrystie St.
Big Screen Project, Sixth Ave. between 29th & 30th Sts.
March 17-20
212-691-5519
www.kaffny.com
The fifth annual Korean American Film Festival New York gets under way Thursday night in a big way with a reception, a live performance by Eugene Park and DJ Spooky, a screening of Han Hyung-mo’s 1956 film, Madame Freedom, with a live rescore by Spooky played by cellist Okkyung Lee and violinist Sean Lee, and Peter Bo Rappmund’s Psychohydrography. Rappmund’s digital journey is one of the centerpieces of the festival; it will also be shown for free, along with works by So Young Yang, at the Big Screen Project in the public plaza on Sixth Ave. between 29th & 30th Sts. and at White Box from 6:00 to 9:00 on Friday night. (On Saturday night, White Box will show So Young Yang films at 6:00 and Jane Jin Kaisen and Guston Sondin-kung’s The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger at 7:30, also free.) Among the other feature films at the festival, whose home base is the Clearview Chelsea Cinemas, are Kim Young-nam’s The Boat, Iris K. Shim’s The House of Suh, Mads Brugger’s Red Chapel, In-Soo Radstake’s Made in Korea: A One Way Ticket, and a digitally remastered version of Pak Chong Song’s 1978 soccer film Centre Forward. In addition, KAFFNY will hold a free screening of Blue & White Concert: Book of Changes, on Thursday at 3:30. A retrospective of the career of Dai Sil Kim-Gibson will include such films as Motherland: Korean Cubans (2006), A Forgotten People: The Sakhalin Koreans (1995), Silence Broken: Korean Comfort Women (1999), and other works by the pioneering Korean American writer-director, who will participate in the panel discussion “LA Riots 19 Years Later” with Charles Burnett and Jung Hui Lee following screenings of her films Sa-I-Gu: From Korean Women’s Perspectives (1993) and Wet Sand: Voices from LA (2004) and Burnett’s Olivia’s Story (1999), which she wrote. There will be several programs of shorts, with films by Greg Pak, Dou Xing, Janice Ahn, Edward Kim, Brent Anbe, Christine Yoo, and others, as well as the KAFFNY Talks: Filmmakers Panel of Kim-Gibson, Soopum Sohn, Rappmund, and Ahn on Saturday at 12 noon.