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Four decades of poetic cinema that dissolves the boundaries between memory and history A special retrospective, Films About Lynne Sachs Who, surveying the artistic trajectory of Lynne Sachs (65), a leading figure in American independent and experimental cinema, will run for three days, Nov.

The sobering side of Japanese society, where calls for ‘peace’ have become a target of ridicule A nine-second animation carrying an ‘anti-war’ message has become a sensation on social media in Japan. But its reception has also been marked by sharp mockery and criticism, prompting observers to say...

PRIDE is a symbolic word that expresses the self-esteem of sexual minorities and encompasses all LGBTQIA+ people. A showcase of solidarity that brings some of the world’s best queer films to Korean audiences, the 16th Seoul International PRIDE Film Festival begins ticket sales at 4 p. m.

His first musical reflections since Sister's Barbershop disbanded: three decades of music in print Lee Seok-won, an iconic figure in Korean indie music, has published a new book, 'Someday, the Barbershop,' chronicling the 30-year musical journey of his band, Sister's Barbershop.

The Swedish Academy’s selection of Canadian poet and classicist ‘Anne Carson’ as this year’s ‘Nobel Prize in Literature’ winner has sent South Korea’s publishing industry into a major sales frenzy. The academy cited her “bold and original body of work that creates new forms of contemporary...

Now well established as pillars of the Korean film industry, many of these directors' rookie-day stories are, in fact, more interesting than the movies that would later define their careers. But those stories rarely come straight from the directors themselves.

〈My First Action〉, a two-volume nonfiction essay vividly recounting the arduous debut journeys of 31 leading directors who have shaped South Korea's film industry, will be published Sept. 25. The book tells the stories of the anxious, fiercely competitive years these directors spent as aspiring...

At 89, master reveals the truth behind six decades onstage “I have the surname Pyo, but I spent my whole life trying not to stand out.” Pyo Jae-soon, 89, a living history of South Korea’s broadcasting and performing arts industries, has published his first autobiographical essay, “Gya, What’s Your...

‘Peter Pan’ dad and writer Jeon Kyung-chul dies, leaving behind a 20-year miracle forged by knocking on 1,000 doors He dies at 63 after battling liver cancer; foundation plans he pursued after a six-month prognosis will continue His paternal devotion never wavered after the terminal diagnosis as he...

Ed Atkins’ ‘One Day in Space’: 40,000 images captured every minute British contemporary artist Ed Atkins, 44, explores the weight of time’s passage and the disappearance of existence in his first solo exhibition in Korea, ‘One Day in Space’.