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The Im Kwon Taek Museum of Cinema Opens at Centum Campus
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2013-04-03 00:00
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센텀캠퍼스.jpg (119.09 KB)On March 28th of 2013, the Im Kwon Taek Museum of Cinema opened at DSU’s Centum Campus in Haeundae.
The new museum honors the internationally renowned Korean film director Im Kwon Taek and will be used as an educational venue for students as well as for the general public.
The museum is composed of six sections dealing with Director Im Kwon Taek’s life in cinema, beginning in the early 1960s. A permanent exhibition room displays five of the six sections:
•Im Kwon Taek’s childhood and adolescence
•The early stage when he devoted himself to making genre movies, after his debut with Farewell Duman River (1962)
•The moment he became absorbed in making his own cinematic world
•The period when he became an iconic Korean director with his movies The General’s Son (1990) and Seopyonje (1993)
•The 2000s, when he started to aim for unity of life and art, after establishing his own cinematic world
A special exhibition room, to be updated on a continuing basis, displays the sixth section. It begins with the pansori film Seopyonje (1993), marking the 20th anniversary of that landmark film. The exhibition showcases various materials such as articles, movie costumes, medals, and vinyl records which Director Im listened to while investigating pansori.
The permanent exhibition room features films with commentaries along with film posters and various other documents about film production, all displayed in chronological order. In addition, the permanent exhibition includes original screenplays, and articles from newspapers and journals about Director Im Kwon Taek and his films.
Of particular interest are the museum’s mini-movie sets. These are ‘Umigwan Cinema’, a theater, as shown in Chihwaseon (2002), which won the Best Director award for Director Im Kwon Taek at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, and as shown also in The General’s Son (1990). These mini-movie sets are remarkable small-size mockups of real movie sets and provide the visiting public with a rare experience of cinema in the making.
Additionally, numerous film professionals who worked with Director Im Kwon Taek during his five-decade career have donated, with admiration and affection, copious and valuable materials to the new museum. The new Im Kwon Taek Museum truly is a treasure trove of Korean cinema.
The new museum honors the internationally renowned Korean film director Im Kwon Taek and will be used as an educational venue for students as well as for the general public.
The museum is composed of six sections dealing with Director Im Kwon Taek’s life in cinema, beginning in the early 1960s. A permanent exhibition room displays five of the six sections:
•Im Kwon Taek’s childhood and adolescence
•The early stage when he devoted himself to making genre movies, after his debut with Farewell Duman River (1962)
•The moment he became absorbed in making his own cinematic world
•The period when he became an iconic Korean director with his movies The General’s Son (1990) and Seopyonje (1993)
•The 2000s, when he started to aim for unity of life and art, after establishing his own cinematic world
A special exhibition room, to be updated on a continuing basis, displays the sixth section. It begins with the pansori film Seopyonje (1993), marking the 20th anniversary of that landmark film. The exhibition showcases various materials such as articles, movie costumes, medals, and vinyl records which Director Im listened to while investigating pansori.
The permanent exhibition room features films with commentaries along with film posters and various other documents about film production, all displayed in chronological order. In addition, the permanent exhibition includes original screenplays, and articles from newspapers and journals about Director Im Kwon Taek and his films.
Of particular interest are the museum’s mini-movie sets. These are ‘Umigwan Cinema’, a theater, as shown in Chihwaseon (2002), which won the Best Director award for Director Im Kwon Taek at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival, and as shown also in The General’s Son (1990). These mini-movie sets are remarkable small-size mockups of real movie sets and provide the visiting public with a rare experience of cinema in the making.
Additionally, numerous film professionals who worked with Director Im Kwon Taek during his five-decade career have donated, with admiration and affection, copious and valuable materials to the new museum. The new Im Kwon Taek Museum truly is a treasure trove of Korean cinema.