[KS] choreographies

[Frank Hoffmann]

Hi!

Have two minutes 50 seconds for a coffee break?

Here is a most creative artistic response to North Korean 
choreographies (like mass games and parades), making it some sort of 
punk choreography. This is actually a completely postmodern work 
that, in its playfulness, almost comes along like the "Emanuela" 
video by Fettes Brot (well, almost--it is far more intense). Can you 
imagine this is for real?

http://craigburrows.com/?m=201011
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Not sure where Craig Burrows, the photographer who created this 
montage, got the actual film footage from. Maybe you know?

The song is "Red Alert," seems to be the title song (or background 
song, whatever the term) from Command & Conquer (also C&C). That is 
by no means a new or old punk band but a computer game, one of those 
you don't want your kids to spend time with. The German version (for 
the German speaking market) was censored--as far as I can see because 
of insufficient distance from Nazi ideology. It's by an L.A. based 
company, and hardly what was on their plate of concerns, yet not 
exactly surprising.

What an amazing work! Play with Communist chique, incorporate the 
soundtrack of some stupid video game, show close-ups of Kim's dancing 
boys and girls, change the speed, and you get a beautifully 
choreographed and provocative montage.
Ok, coffee break is over now.

Frank


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Frank Hoffmann
http://koreaweb.ws