- dir. ZHANG LU
- year. 2011
- country. SOUTH KOREA
- run-time. 95min
- rating. N/A
FREE
Doors 7:00PM - Film 7:30PM
Deptford Cinema is proud to collaborate with the Korean Cultural Centre UK to bring you incredible cinema. Once a month, we'll screen a gem picked by KCC. And it's free!
This month's pick is SCENERY, our first documentary in the series and a typically nuanced, poetic and genre-bending visual treat from the internationally acclaimed filmmaker Zhang Lu.
Chinese-Korean director Zhang Lu’s eighth feature follows fourteen foreigners from nine different countries who have left their home to work in South Korea. In this documentary, Lu asks each of these men to reveal the most vivid dream that remains in their memory since arriving in Korea.
Bordering the surreal, Lu conjures an evocative reflection on South Korea’s evolving social landscape.
The dreams of all men seem to merge into one, as we learn about their longing to return to their hometowns, reunite with their lost families and embrace their mothers. In their dreams, their anxieties are juxtaposed with nostalgia for their childhood. By alternating these oniric recollections with images of the heavy machinery they operate in their work, Lu accentuates the striking contrast between the immensity of the equipment they employ and the fragility of the hopes they harbour.