fear note

What’s the magic word for the conjuring up such a mother as this? The mother in Bong Jun-ho’s film shows the private obsession and social constructions which permit the emergence of a protective, monstrous and nameless mother. Hye-Ja Kim, playing the eponymous character, is a national mother character in South Korea (having played the mother [...]

An award winning documentary film about the work of photographer Edward Burtynsky, Manufactured Landscapes opens with an 8-minute-long moving camera sequence showing a massive production line in China. It is quite amazing to see how vast the factory space is, but it is also striking how all of the uniformed young factory workers are working [...]