North Korea is one of the world’s most isolated nations. For sixty years, North Koreans have been governed by a totalitarian regime. A cult of personality surrounds its two recent leaders: first, Kim Il Sung, and now, his son, Kim Jong Il. For Kim Jong Il’s 46th birthday, a hybrid begonia named kimjongilia was created, symbolizing wisdom, love, justice, and peace. The film draws its name from this bright red flower and reveals the extraordinary stories told by survivors of North Korea’s vast prison camps, of deadly famine, and of every kind of repression. In a series of devastating interviews with refugees, director N.C. Helkin traces their torturous paths to freedom, on rickety sailboats and across mountain passes, while exposing the inhuman conditions they suffered in the nation’s concentration camps. Their experiences are interspersed with archival footage of North Korean propaganda films and original scenes that illuminate the contours of daily life for a people whose every action is monitored, and whose every thought could bring official retribution. Along with the survivors’ stories, Kimjongilia examines the mass illusion possible under totalitarianism and the human rights abuses required to maintain that illusion.
 
 
 
 
 

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Indigenous only to gardens north of the thirty-eighth parallel, the “kimjongilia” is a flower named for the Dear Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, he of the Don King hair and Linda Hunt height. Yet to the Anglophone ear the title of this mesmerizing documentary by writer-director H.C. Heinkin is more liable to conjure up a monster movie – the people-crushing Godzilla, perhaps, which is not far off the mark. Still shuttered behind barbed wire in a wired world, North Korea remains an undiscovered country dimly glimpsed in smuggled video and state-approved photo ops. In a brisk seventy-five minutes, Heinkin puts a human face to the figures behind the flash cards. A tale of great escapes from a countrywide gulag, Kimjongilia is built around the testimony of a handful of exceptionally gutsy and lucky men and women. Like Holocaust survivors, they tell their tales in flat, matter-of-fact tones, short on histrionics and tears. To underscore the material difference between the two Koreas, Heinkin’s camera lingers on the iconic satellite picture of the peninsula at night. Below the latitude line, the electrified south is lit up like Disneyland; above the line, the country is blanketed in pitch blackness. In Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s Team America: World Police (2004), the South Park conservatives string up Kim Jong Il as a mad marionette, wandering around his palatial digs in “rone-ly, so rone-ly” isolation. Too often, though, the monstrous reality of life in North Korea is masked by the off-the-charts strangeness of the regime and the quirky goofiness of its five-foot-three despot. Kimjongilia is a necessary corrective.

theEYE is a series of interview-based profiles of contemporary visual artists. Each film provides a thought-provoking survey of an artist’s work and ideas, featuring the artist in discussion and illustrated by sequences captured of key exhibitions and installations around the world.

The beautifully produced films offer a rare and personal insight into the influences and creative processes that lie behind the artist’s creations, and provide an accessible means of engaging with the pleasures and puzzles of art in the 21st century.

An excellent introduction to contemporary artists and their works, theEYE is an ideal resource for a wide range of audience, including galleries, museums and colleges, as well as the individual art-lover.

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Anthony Caro
Tracey Emin
Gilbert and George
Howard Hodgkin
Anish Kapoor
Malcolm Morley
Chris Ofili
Rachel Whiteread

To purchase all eight titles in theEYE Series: $499.00

In the early 1960s Anthony Caro led a revolution in sculpture in Britain. His abstract steel constructions, often painted in bold colors, forged a new and internationally influential sculptural language. In the years since his fertile and diverse practice has consistently challenged and extended what sculpture is, and what it might be.

At the age of 80, Anthony Caro remains intensely active, working each day in his studio and overseeing every detail of an extensive retrospective at Tate. Preparations for the show are featured in this profile, along with many of his major works, filmed in Britain, Germany and the United States.

In interview Anthony Caro speaks about the development of his art from the bronze figures of the 1950s through the many variations of his work with metals, his hybrids of sculpture and architecture, and his recent large-scale, multi-part responses to Old Master painting and the worlds of myth and Christianity. The film is a portrait of an artist of great distinction whose inventiveness and creative vigor are undiminished.

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Although at times obscured by the artist’s celebrity, the art of Tracey Emin is serious and focused, challenging and at times startlingly beautiful. In this film, she speaks frankly about her career, the craft of her immensely varied work, and the immediate, personal themes with which she engages: autobiography, memory, desire, and identity.

Many of her best-known works, including Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963-1995 (1995) and My Bed (1998), are illustrated and discussed, as is a wide selection of drawings, prints, paintings, neons, appliqué blankets and installations.

“I always say if I didn’t make art, I’d probably be dead,” she reflects. “But let’s be more realistic about that. If I didn’t make art and I’d done well in life, then I might have gone into retail. I would probably be the person in the shop that would be always organizing the displays, and always making the noticeboard look nice in the canteen, stuff like that. I’m a genuinely creative person.”

Please note that this video contains explicit images and adult language featured in artworks by Tracey Emin.

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Gilbert Prousch met George Passmore at St Martin’s School of Art in 1967. Since then they have famously lived and worked together as Gilbert & George, creating an extraordinary body of provocative artworks. They have exhibited themselves as “Living Sculptures”, documented the banality of their daily lives in London’s East End, and, since the late 1970s, produced vibrant, challenging photographic collages.

This video profile of Gilbert & George features a characteristically deadpan performance of themselves. Sex, money, race and religion, they explain, are four themes at the heart of their art. Their interview is complemented by images of many of their works, including the remarkable Dirty Words Pictures made in 1977, together with important collages of the 1980s and 1990s.

Asked if their work, and their personas, are ironic, Gilbert says, ” We always think it’s struggle enough to drag something out from inside of ourselves onto that wall without trying to be strange or odd about it. We wanted to be absolutely painful truth,” George adds. “I really believe it has to be painful.”

“1980’s The World of Gilbert and George is really only interesting as an unwitting document of its time, but theEYE, an extended interview on the pair, is fascinating…”
-Guardian Guide, February 2007

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Howard Hodgkin is one of the world’s leading painters, whose art is admired both by critics and by a wide public. Beginning with a remembered experience, Hodgkin works on his seductive and complex paintings for long periods, characteristically producing richly colored, sweeping compositions, which continue into the picture-frame itself. These paintings uniquely straddle representation and abstraction, at the same time as they demonstrate both an awareness of history and an understanding of art’s potential today. Most recently, his interest in working in different scales, evident particularly in significantly larger paintings such as Americana and After Vuillard, demonstrates his concern to engage the viewer in new and challenging ways.

In this interview, illustrated with many key paintings, Howard Hodgkin speaks with warmth and passion about how his methods, about his influences, about color and composition, and about the fundamental importance of painting. “You need things to look at,” he says simply, “things to affect your feelings, and your intelligence, and your heart.”

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In October 2002 Anish Kapoor completed his extraordinary sculpture Marsyas for The Unilever Series of commissions in the Turbine Hall at Tate Modern, London. A challenging and overwhelming artwork, Marsyas is a vast red PVC membrane stretched between three massive steel rings. The title refers to a satyr in Greek mythology who was flayed alive by the god Apollo.

This film follows the making of Marsyas, from the earliest maquettes to the complex installation at Tate. Anish Kapoor comments on each stage of the process, and on the ideas and concerns of his art. Also illustrated are a range of his other sculptures and two recent large-scale works: Sky Mirror in Nottingham and Taratantara, created for the empty shell of Baltic as this new art center was being built in Gateshead.
 
 
 
 
 
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Malcolm Morley is one of the most significant and influential painters working today. Born in England but active in the United States since the late 1950s, Morley has developed an intensely individual vision embracing, but never determined by, autobiography, politics, psychoanalysis, myth, the visual culture of his time and the limitless potential of paint.

Filmed as Morley works in his distinctive manner on a spectacular new canvas, this documentary features the artist’s provocative reflections on his life, painting technique, influences and concerns. It also illustrates a wide range of his paintings from the earliest abstract works, through the painstakingly precise depictions of reproductions (on postcards, from travel brochures) of ships, contemporary scenes and Old Masters, to the catastrophe pictures of the 1970s.

Paintings engaging with ancient cultures followed, and then works based on the cardboard cut-out airplane and boat kits which Morley has made since his youth. Most recently, he has returned to paintings of news photographs, exploring a striking and challenging new range of imagery.

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In 2003 Chris Ofili created the spectacular installation within reach for the British Pavilion at the Venice Biennale. Combining a cycle of paintings depicting lovers in a Paradise-like garden with a shimmering glass dome, Ofili plunged visitors into disorienting spaces of dense color and enveloping light.

Shot in London, Germany and Venice, this film relates the creation of Within Reach. Chris Ofili’s reflections on the process are complemented by interviews with his collaborator in Venice, architect David Adjaye, and the structural engineer from Arup Associates, who helped realize the complex dome.

Also included is an exploration of The Upper Room, an installation of 13 exquisite canvases by Ofili, which was first shown in 2002. Both this and Within Reach are about “trying to create an atmosphere for people to feel somehow out of themselves.” His aim, the artist explains, is to “do something that is sincerely interesting and can honestly enhance the experience of looking.”

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Rachel Whiteread has created some of the most remarkable and resonant public sculptures of recent years. House (now demolished) cast in concrete the interior of a terraced house in London’s East End. Holocaust Memorial is a moving memorial in Vienna to the victims of the holocaust in Austria. Yet she also frequently works on a domestic scale, casting in plaster and resin the spaces inside, around and beneath furniture, floors and staircases. Her art is a uniquely poetic response to the everyday, and to the haunting themes of memory and mortality.

In this video profile Rachel Whiteread speaks about the ideas that prompted a number of her best-known sculptures, including Ghost, her first cast of the space inside a complete room, and Monument, which established a shimmering presence in London’s Trafalgar Square during the summer of 2001. She also outlines the complexities of creating her often technically challenging works, and reflects on the controversies that they have sometimes set off.
 
 
 
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Narrated by William S. Burroughs and presented in claymation and live-action, The Junky’s Christmas (Presented by Francis Ford Coppola) depicts a story written by the author in 1952. Danny the car wiper, a desperate character who has just been released from jail on the upper west side of Manhattan, searches for a fix on a cold Christmas day. His story ends in a revelation that even Danny could never have thought possible.

Also includes the short films Ironbound, featuring the music of Joe Jackson, and Traveling Light, featuring the music of Van Morrison.
 
 

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“Highly Recommended for its inventiveness, and for the chance to see a literary hero like Burroughs celebrated instead of shunned…You will definitely want to deck the halls with boughs of Burroughs after partaking of this unusual slice of stop motion magic.”
- DVDtalk.com

After hearing a rare recording of Korean Shaman Kim Seok-Chul’s music, Australian drummer Simon Barker knew right away that he was listening to one of the world’s greatest improvisers. So unique, in fact, is the artistry of the Shaman that the Korean Government bestowed upon him the honorary title “Intangible Asset Number 82,” recognizing him as the pre-eminent practitioner, Grand Master and protector of his art form. Intrigued, Barker commits to find and learn from the enigmatic master. Yet Kim Seok-Chul proves elusive, despite the fame accompanying his official honor as being South Korea’s 82nd Intangible Asset.

Imbued with a sense of destiny, the journey becomes a rite of passage as Barker experiences life-changing encounters with the engaging and exotic characters who eventually lead him to the Shaman. Intangible Asset Number 82 is a true testimony to the universal language of music and its transformative power.
 
 
 
 
“A masterly conceived and filmed documentary, ‘Intangible Asset No. 82′ represents a beautiful balance between an educational document and a moving human drama. Through the personal journey of the Australian drummer Simon Barker — guided by the Korean percussionist and vocalist Kim Dong-Won — audiences are provided a rare window onto the meanings and aesthetics of Korean traditional music. The breathtaking beauty and ethos of Korean instruments and voices is matched by the equally enthralling and heart-breaking funeral experienced at the dramatic conclusion.”

Dr. Nathan Hesselink
University of British Colombia
Associate Professor of Ethnomusicology
Research Associate, Centre for Korean Research

Grade Level: Grades 10-12, College and University
Subjects: Culture, Music
Language: Korean and English, with English Subtitles
Copyright: © 2009 In the Sprocket Productions. All Rights Reserved.
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Total Running Time: 90 minutes
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Video Librarian Review January/February 2010
Rating: 3 out of 4 Stars - Recommended!

Filmmaker Emma Franz’s Intangible Asset No. 82 follows Australian jazz drummer Simon Barker as he searches for elusive percussionist and esteemed hereditary shaman Kim Seok-Chul. For seven years, Barker has traveled to South Korea for inspiration. After a friend introduces Barker to the complex improvisations of Kim Seok-Chul (whose work has received minimal documentation), he decides to find out everything he can about the man, proclaiming Kim “one of the greatest musicians alive”—and later discovering that Korea officially considers him “Intangible Cultural Asset Number 82” (“intangible” because one can’t see his contributions). Barker finally meets Kim Dong-Won, a fellow drummer who offers to introduce him to the grand master. To make the most of their journey, Dong-Won recommends that they drop in on a few folk on the way to Busan, including Jeong Sung-Dok, a woman who became a shaman at the age of eight, and Bae Il-Dong, a pansori singer who tells epic stories through song and who built up his voice by singing next to a waterfall for several years. Simon, Dong-Won, and Il-Dong hit it off so well that they end up performing and recording together. But as they get closer to Kim Seok-Chul’s hometown, Barker learns that the octogenarian is in declining health, and the pilgrimage turns out far different than planned. Recommended.

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Opening with scenes of jazz drumming and promotional blurbs of praise for Australian drummer Simon Barker, this first full-length documentary by Australian jazz singer Emma Franz soon has Barker narrating his deeply personal musical philosophy, beginning with a need to base his own performance on something more ‘regional’ than American jazz traditions. After hearing a recording of Korean drummer Kim Seok-Chul, Barker traveled 5,000 miles north to South Korea and found the sound he sought in performances and teachings of Korean musicians who revered and emulated Kim. During his seventeenth trip to Korea, he was finally granted an audience with the grandmaster himself. This film documents that trip.

Kim had been a lifelong shaman and p’ansori percussionist and a shaman. A p’ansori performance consists of one drummer accompanying one singer of dramatic, epic ballads. Not all p’ansori performers are also shamans, whose ritual ceremonies are held to have great curative and creative power. We learn from drummer and teacher Kim Dong-Won, who took his time deciding to trust Barker’s integrity and respect for Korean culture enough to shepherd him around the country and introduce him to other musician and shamans, that Kim Seok-Chul’s work had been officially designated a cultural ‘intangible asset.’ It was the 82nd such honor to be bestowed by the government-sponsored system begun in the 1960s. Kim Dong-Won now shares the role of film narrator with Barker, allowing us to learn his musical philosophy. How will this East/West encounter develop? Franz keeps us wanting to see what happens next.

A p’ansori singer may produce hard, throat-constricted vocal attacks and hoarse sustained notes that leave audiences concerned for the safety of his or her larynx. Kim Dong-Won introduces Barker to Bae Il-Dong, who demonstrates how he developed his p’ansori voice by shout-singing next to a waterfall for seven years. (One of the amazing revelations of this film is Bae’s gorgeous, smooth speaking voice, so different from his barking p’ansori outbursts; he could recite kimchee recipes in Korean and convince you he is describing mouthwatering honey cakes.) Interaction between Korean standing singers, dancers, or bangers on huge, colorful hanging drums and percussionists playing double-headed barrel drums while seated on the ground is a recurring theme and serves to emphasize how important concentration between two performers is to the essentially improvisatory nature of a satisfactory musical outcome. During a lesson with one musician, Barker repeatedly throws himself on the floor in order to be one with the force of gravity – to learn to ‘relax’ into that special technique Korean drummers have mastered that makes them look like their arms simply drop into the required rhythm of their own accord.

Intercultural trust and respect are so often illustrated that they become major subjects in the program. An older Korean master of p’ansori drumming allows questions from Barker and praises the research the Westerner has obviously done in preparation for the interview. Korean spiritual shamanism is sensitively addressed. A young woman who felt called to be a shaman at age eight is visited and excerpts from various healing ceremonies are shown, preparing viewers for the climactic encounter with old, infirm Kim Seok-Chul, just after his release from a long hospital stay. His family has arranged for a shamanist healing ceremony to be performed at his home. Barker and the Australian film crew have been allowed to witness it. Kim Dong-Won finds this astonishing and is obviously awed by the event. Kim Seok-Chul dies only days afterward and formal expressions of grief ensue, with mourners in traditional white funeral garb expressing both heartfelt outpourings of loss and joyous appreciation for Kim’s gifts.

Koreans and Australians seem equally affected by the musical exchanges documented in this film. Barker’s jazz group, Kim Dong-Won, and Bae perform and record together, with a ‘crossover’ sonic result that moves and motivates them all to pursue the collaboration. Simon Barker speaks of all he has learned from the Koreans – about ‘rough beauty’ and breath and rhythm as a circular, ongoing force. Dong-Won says Simon’s entry into the Korean musical world was ‘destiny’ and that ‘something like brotherhood’ has been achieved.

Both the sound and look of this program allow Korea to remain in focus. We, along with Barker, are visitors who wish to understand and be taught something about a beautiful county’s traditions. Lovely images of natural areas, rice fields, and temples balance scenes of city crowds and instructional interiors. Recordings of Kim Seok-Chul introduce us to the sound that initially captivated Barker, but plenty of other music making is shown, and development of the cross-pollinated jazz-p’ansori merger that ends the film seems appropriately inevitable. We are left wanting more. The musicians in the film have formed a group called Daorum whose work can be sampled on YouTube.

Highly recommended to collections supporting studies in Korean music, percussion, jazz, and general cross-cultural studies.

-Educational Media Reviews Online

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A true story, 18 year old Violette Nozière (brilliantly played here by Isabelle Huppert, 12-time César Award nominee for Best Actress) was condemned to death for patricide and attempted matricide in the 1930s, ostensibly to gain access to her parents’ meager assets in order to support her good-for-nothing lover. During the trial she alludes to incest committed by her father and accuses her mother of tacit consent. She also claimed that her real father, a wealthy and powerful man, refuses to acknowledge her because she was born out of wedlock. Violette offers a chilling portrait of French society and sexual morals in the early 20th century.
 

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Best Actress
Isabelle Huppert
1978 Cannes Film Festival

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Stéphane Audran
1978 French Academy of Cinema

“utterly unforgettable…a triumph for Chabrol…the best film he has yet made”
-The New York Times

Lipstick & Dynamite shines a spotlight on the forgotten first ladies of the ring. Gladys ‘Killem’ Gillem wrestled women, men, alligators, and bears. At 18, Ida May Martinez took to the road to flash the only thing she knew - how to kick, punch, and defend herself. Narrowly escaping a date rape at 16, Penny Banner trained for survival. Still kicking butt at 80, The Fabulous Moolah and The Great Mae Young live together with midget wrestler sidekick Diamond ‘Lil, and continue to take bumps with World Wrestling Entertainment.

Each woman reflects on her own remarkable life with fond and bitter memories, reconciling a wild, flamboyant youth with the reality of getting older and fading away. Lipstick & Dynamite follows Moolah, Mae and the girls 60 years, many bumps and falls later as they discuss the money, the old days and what it’s like to be a ‘lady’ in today’s favorite guilty pleasure: spectator sport.
 
 

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“…rough, rowdy and raucous…”
– Los Angeles Times

“Utterly enthralling!”
– Blender

“Exhilarating…riotous…endlessly entertaining.”
– New York Magazine

“Hair-yanking, bone-crunching…beautiful, salty-tongued women pounding the hell out of each other.”
– The Onion

Narrated by Leonard Cohen, this two-part series explores ancient teachings on death and dying and boldly visualizes the afterlife according to Tibetan philosophy. A Way of Life documents the book’s acceptance and use in Europe and North America. Included is remarkable footage of the rites and liturgies surrounding and following the death of a Ladakhi elder as well as the views of the Dalai Lama on life and death. The Great Liberation observes an old Buddhist lama and a 13-year-old novice monk as they guide a deceased person into the afterlife. The passage of the soul is visualized with animation blended into actual location shooting. An additional short documentary, The Trap, explores Buddhist concepts of mutual respect, tolerance and cycles in the daily life of a North Atlantic fishing village.
 
 
 
 

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The Royal Shakespeare Company’s Macbeth has been lauded as the finest production of Shakespeare’s Scottish play for over a quarter of a century. In 2000, it played to packed houses in Stratford, London, and theatres abroad.

All twenty actors from the original production, including Antony Sher and Harriet Walter, star in this compelling screen version of Gregory Doran’s original stage production. Cleverly reconceived for the camera, and brilliantly shot at London’s Roundhouse, Macbeth was filmed in a gritty style using the edgy techniques of fly-on-the wall documentaries. Doran says, “Macbeth is, in many ways, the most filmic of Shakespeare’s plays with its short, quick-fire scenes and its hurtling, dynamic momentum. In the film I tried to capture its raw energy and dangerous intimacy.”
 
 
 
 

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“A harrowing and disturbingly funny parable for the dawn of the 21st century.”
-The New York Times

“The best television Shakespeare I have ever seen.”
-Daily Mail

This adaptation of Shakespeare’s Macbeth was done on stage by the Royal Shakespeare Company in London to sold-out crowds, prompting the group to compile a screen version of the drama with most of the original cast. The DVD includes interviews with the main characters and the director, along with a discussion of the drama itself. Macbeth is a fairly horrific drama, not just due to content but also on staging, given the amount of death and blood that can be brought out by any director. This one is no exception, as Macbeth loses his mind and the play draws to its bloody conclusion. Modern audiences will be drawn to the contemporary setting, unless one is a classicist of Shakespearean drama.

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“Fellini and Marcello had taken a moment of discovery and made it immortal.”
-Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times