Grace Period
Logan Theatre
2646 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, IL, US
IL
41.9296984003865
-87.7088258159199
Description
Grace PeriodKyungMook KIM & Caroline Key62 min., Video, 2015, South Korea/USA“Combining documentary with experimental video, Grace Period documents the activities of female sex workers in the Yeongdeungpo red-light district in Seoul, South Korea. Facing constant police crackdowns and the threat of permanent closure following the opening of a massive shopping complex adjacent to their workplaces, the women of Yeongdeungpo band together in protest. Archival footage, mostly shot by the women themselves, shows their collective efforts as they organize with other sex workers from brothels across the country. In creative and daring acts of resistance, they launch a series of demonstrations that trace a lineage to Korea’s democratic union movements of the 1980s-- denouncing the government and corporate interests, demanding decriminalization, and declaring their rights as “ KK, CKShown With:Jaaji Approx.Sky Hopinka8 min., video, 2015, USA“Logging and approximating a relationship between audio recordings of my father and videos gathered of the landscapes we have both separately traversed. The initial distance between the logger and the recordings, of recollections and of songs, new and traditional, narrows while the images become an expanding semblance of filial affect.” SHNotes From The BorderIva Radivojevic10 min., video, 2015, USA“The refugee crisis on the borders of Europe during the summer of 2015 through the tale of one man’s journey to the continent.” IR
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Start:
2016-06-03T19:00:00-05:00
End:
2016-06-03T21:00:00-05:00
Category
Film
Tickets
ticket
10.0
USD
154