[KS] A rare chance to see Kim Ki-Young's <THE HOUSEMAID> in 35mm print!!!

[yung-kwak at uiowa.edu]

The Institute for Cinema and Culture, with support from
International Programs and the Korean Cultural Center in New York,
presents as the 4th film of this semester's Proseminar on
Cinema and Culture at the University of Iowa:

On Thursday, September 16th, at 7:00 p.m. in 101 BSCB

<THE HOUSEMAID>(Kim Ki-Young, 1960, 92 min., b&w) in 35MM PRINT!!!
Voted Second Best Korean film of all time by Korean film critics in 2003


Depicting an extramarital affair and a consequent murder in the fantastic
frame of a dream, this anachronistic or 'untimely' (a la Nietzsche)
masterpiece by 'the' maverick Korean (dentist-turned-) director Kim Ki-Young,
aka "Mr. Monster," had remained largely unknown even to Korean critics and
scholars until 1997 when this film was shocased in a long overdue 
retrospective at the Pusan International Film Festival. 

Immediately recognized as a masterpiece, this films was then screened in 
various film festivals in Berlin, London, Belgrade, San Francisco, Hong Kong,
and, finally will be screened here in Iowa City for the first time in the
Midwest.  


Besides, this speicial screening will be introduced and followed by
a special talk (titled "READING THE <HOUSEMAID>: THE PIANO, RATS, 
AND TROUBLED MASCULINITY") by a notable scholar on Korean Cinema, 
Prof. Kyung Hyun Kim, UC Irvine, author of [The Remasculinization of 
Korean Cinema](Duke Univ. Press, 2004). 

Don't miss this SPEICIAL EVENT!!!


All films are free and open to the public. The Proseminar is taught by
Kwak Yung-Bin (yung-kwak at uiowa.edu).

Kwak Yung-Bin
Ph.D. Student, Film Studies
Dept. of Cinema and Comparative Literature
University of Iowa

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"Kim's films are as psychically fraught as Hitchcock's, as floridly 
overwrought as Nicholas Ray's, and may well be poised to enter the ranks of 
the world's most sought-after cult flicks." 
- Chuck Stephens, San Francisco Bay Guardian

"Kim Ki-young's films are in no way representative or typical examples of 
Korean cinema...[however] surprisingly enough, in the same way such an 
exceptional and un-stereotypically German filmmaker as Fassbinder signifies 
Germanness in the critical economy of the international art-house and festival 
circuit, we may yet find that Kim Ki-young, the maverick Mr. Monster, comes to 
signify Koreanness." 
- Prof. Chris Berry, UC Berkeley, co-coordinator of the website
"The House of Kim Ki-Young," & author of [A Bit on the Side: East-West 
Topographies of Desire](1994) and editor of [Chinese Films in Focus: 25 New
Takes](2003)