Still from the film The Sense of Violence by Kim Mooyoung, showing the exterior of a modern building with steps and pillars.
A still from The Sense of Violence (2025), directed by Kim Mooyoung — exploring the tension between authority, space, and aggression
 
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The Sense of Violence

by Kim Mooyoung
The film traces the trajectory of cinema by uncovering the specific intersections shared within the historical context of "anti-communist art" during the Park Chung-hee regime.
2024  ·  1h54m  ·  Korea (Democratic People's Republic of)
English subs
About the Film

The film traces the trajectory of cinema by uncovering the specific intersections shared within the historical context of “anti-communist art” during the Park Chung-hee regime (1970s~1970s). In particular, the censorship of anti-communist film imagery by the Korean Central Intelligence Agency symbolically reveals the presence of power and ideology in the space between image and reality during the Park regime. The images reproduced by power through ideology represent reality but paradoxically intervene in it. For instance, the massacre scenes that appear almost as clichés in anti communist films influence the reality experienced by the families of massacre victims, a reality often forgotten. The film also contemplates those who create these images. What roles do creators play between power and ideology? Creators may collaborate with power, producing images that serve the ideology desired by those in authority. At other times, they might document images they observe passively, seemingly outside the sphere of power. However, even these seemingly detached images are shaped by the pervasive influence of power within a
larger hierarchical structure.

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In the Press
Interview (Berlin International Film Festival)
Fabian Tietke and Barbara WurmArsenal Berlin
Credits
Producer
Kim Mooyoung
Screenwriter
Kim Mooyoung
Cinematographer
Kim Mooyoung
Editor
Kim Mooyoung
Music
Worramet Matutamtada
About the Director

Kim Mooyoung

Director Kim Mooyoung speaking on stage at a screening of The Sense of Violence.
Die Dolmetscherin mit dem Regisseur Kim Mooyoung und dem Moderator Michael Baute

Kim Mooyoung makes films and engages in research-based media exhibition work. His first feature film, Night Light (2018), was screened in the Vision section at the Busan International Film Festival and won the Passionate Staff Award at the Seoul Independent Film Festival and the Best Cinematography Award at the Wildflower Film Awards Korea. Kim’s experimental short documentary Gold Dragon Mountain (2021) was invited to the Seoul Independent Film Festival and the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival.

 

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