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Wither in Hong Sangsoo - A reading of a story by Kyung Hyun Kim: Preceded by "Weather in Hong Sangsoo (video essay by Kyung Hyun Kim, 21 min)

Colloquium | February 6 | 4 p.m. |  Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)

Speaker: Kyung Hyun Kim, Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of California, Irvine

Sponsor: Center for Korean Studies (CKS)

The speaker will read from a story about an imaginary dialogue that takes place between the narrator, a retired film critic, and Hong Sangsoo, an amnesiac filmmaker. It is set in 2022. The story attempts to braid together a few concerns in the works of Hong Sangsoo that encompass the possibility of nondualistic relations: between authenticity and falsity, between humility and vanity, and between cultivation and resolute action.

Preceding this reading of a story entitled “Wither in Hong Sangsoo” is a 21-minute video essay called “Weather in Hong Sangsoo.” “Weather in Hong Sangsoo” is a compilation film that collages footage from films Hong has thus far directed in a career that spans over past 15 years—one that began with his debut film, The Day a Pig Fell into the Well (1996), and continues most recently with In Another Country (2012). The video essay foregrounds cryptic themes found in Hong Sangsoo’s films, such as weather, trees, and unseen, and argues that they are constant forces of passion, renewal, and even transmigration in Hong’s work.

Kyung Hyun Kim is Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Director of Critical Theory Emphasis at UC Irvine. He is also the author of "The Remasculinization of Korean Cinema" [Duke University Press, 2004] "Virtual Hallyu: Korean Cinema of the Global Era" [Duke University Press, 2011].

Event Contact: cks@berkeley.edu, 510-642-5674