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Screening: The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger — Gadag
March 27, 2024 19:30 pm - 22:00

(c) Jane Jin Kaisen & Guston Sondin-Kung
March 27, 2024, 7:30 - 10:00 PM @ Oyoun, Club (Souterrain)
Movie Screening: Jane Jin Kaisen & Guston Sondin-Kung, The Woman, the Orphan, and the Tiger, 2010, 72 mins.
Followed by a film talk with the curator* Dami Choi as well as Anja Sunhyun Michaelsen and Rae (Mee-Jin) Tilly.
Language (film): English, Korean, Danish spoken language
Subtitles: with English subtitles ((only for the parts where non-English languages are spoken)
Language (film) English spoken language
You can find information about the DGS program parts/offers from GADAG here.
THE WOMAN, THE ORPHAN, AND THE TIGER, 2010
HD video 16:9, single channel. 72 minutes. Color / B/W
Jane Jin Kaisen & Guston Sondin-Kung
The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger, begins with the sound of women's voices speaking of histories of violence, of things repressed and silenced. Gradually, their voices accumulate into a cacophony of pure sonic intensity against an extreme slow-motioned image of a woman survivor of Japan's military sexual slavery who, in the absence of words to accurately account for her suffering, gets up and walks into the center of a war crimes tribunal court room and gestures wildly before she faints.
The Woman, The Orphan, and The Tiger explores ways in which trauma is passed on from previous generations to the present through a sense of being haunted. Following a group of transnational adoptees and other women of the Korean diaspora in their 20s and 30s, the film unveils how the return of the repressed confronts and destabilizes narratives that have been constructed to silence histories of pain and violence inflicted onto the bodies and lives of women and children.
A genealogy is created by relating the stories of three generations of women: the former 'comfort' women who were subjected to military sexual slavery by the Japanese military between World War I and World War II – women who have worked as sex-workers around US military bases in South Korea since the 1950s to the present – and transnational adopted women from South Korea to the West since the Korean War.
Composed of oral testimonies, poetry, public statements and interview fragments, the filmic narrative unfolds in a non-chronological and layered manner. By reinterpreting and juxtaposing historical archive footage with recorded documentary material and staged performative actions, multiple spaces and times are conjoined to contour how a nexus of militarism, patriarchy, racism and nationalism served to suppress and marginalize certain parts of the population and how this part of world history continues to reverberate in the present moment.
가닥 Gadag is a project by Oyoun, funded by the Lotto Stiftung Berlin, with its public program on 24 March - 30 April, 2024. It has three chapters unfolding at the same time: Strands (video and multimedia exhibition), Tangle (laboratory) and Knots (accompanying events and program).
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