There are no adults in Haiti now.

I was just about to fell off from the running machine. I just disinterestly staring at the TV installed to the running machine tuned to, for my English listening practice, CNN. I just closed my eyes unintentionally, partly because of the horrible situation there. Mainly, however, I just couldn't bear the way the CNN was dealing with the disaster. I said to my self "Oh my god" and just wanted to escape from that how journalism of developed countries, probably including Korea, were tempting to shoot 'something' mist of the hell, where they don't belong to, Haiti.


Haiti's disasters were filling the screen and heroic journalists from the US were depicting what is going on there. Everything seemed so terrible, as you can tell. The only thing that was NOT miserabe were the CNN journalists. The anchor was weary of if her reporters were ok in Haiti where after quakes are still in effect, but the reports looked 'relatively' clean, for sure, and civilized in the land of, even befor the earthquake, poverty and history of slavery. And they WERE hero. It was , I recall, that showed the scene of rescuing a child from the piles of concretes, followed by active camara crews, driven by male CNN reporter. The anchor was proudly delivering the story with the typical confident tone of American news caster, saying "You will not see anything like this except CNN's ." In the other story, the reporter were showing where lost of Haitian were in long line to get on the free rescue ferry in worn-out boats in the ocean. He was interviewing the owner of the ferry, who was white and supposed to be warm-hearted world citizen, letting the refugees behind as a backgroun, symbolizing how hellish Haiti now was. CNN reporters are humaine, while Haitians are not; Haitians were merely rushing and struggling only to survive unlike civilized humain beings.

Even though Haitian children have lost their lives and they are in needs the most desperately, there were no adults amonog Haitians. They are all vunerable kids for the outer world, for the camera-carrying developed countries.

New 'to-do list' - matter of Space in Korean indie cinema now

(샘터분식(Samteo Snack Bar) dir. Tae Jun-sik, 2009)

In Korean Indie Film realm, 'Space' has become an important issue lately and they require some tool to analyze what these films are participating on the discourse. Because usually it has been told how desperate and miserable for the residents of the rural area are, aside from the politics of the way of representation. That is mainly focusing on societal exclusion. However, at this time in Korea, when a dream of Construction State promoted by the government is whaling over the country, some other points also should be suggested. It could be modernity as a historical factor and labor as a (personal) lifetime history narrative.

One of my friend sent me a list of 'things fo read' to research the matter in a basis of sociology. Truly wonderful. We're going to have something like a seminar with this. Supposedly, more 'outraged' documentaries will come out this spring's "Indie Documentary Film Festival". This research should be totally helpful.

I should wrap up the other issue on 'working poor twenties in Korean indie films' as soon as possible(pretty doubtful, though...).

Lovers(2009) - Kim Do-yeon

http://siff.or.kr/eng/program/short_view.html?mov_idx=796&gubun=2

Today's a new years day and I have no idea why this film hit my head. I'm right here in my chill room alone, just surfing the internet without any purpose. I think I happened to consider 'what was the no.1 film for me in 2009?' or sort of things. I took '2009 Seoul Independent Film Festival catalog' away and flipped it, not looking through any of the pages. And this film just came from my brain. Perhaps it's because this film is about desire, so to speak, the fate or the destiny of desire.

This film is about (hopeless) old gay man. But this film expands the subject to 'how much we should be desperate to get what we desire' and 'how uncertain and hostile the object of desire always is'. And it's not just about the homosexual. His boyfriend, Ho Yeong also had a 'girl friend', which the protagonist didn't know(he would have known but ignored it). After Ho Yeong disappeared without a notice, these two, the girl and the protagonist, got confused and happened to share the same feeling.

This film's Korean title has a different meaning from the English translated one. It means 'Love Story'. It's like "Let me tell you my love story." It sounds so 'trivial' that it doesn't suitable to cover this 'shocking'(for some Korean audience) story. But that's the way it is. That's the way every 'Love Story' is supposed to be;Truly sincere for somebody but not for the others, and totally heartbreaking at some time but for nothing afterwards.

The atmosphere of this film is elegant and worth to see. Invited to Clermont-Ferrand Shorts Festival.