The 49th Hexagram

​The 49th Hexagram explores the construction of cultural memory and political narrative surrounding the history of the Korean peninsula. Employing the services of an animation studio in Pyongyang, North Korea, Ho Tzu Nyen’s work reinterprets scenes of political uprising and mass demonstration as depicted in South Korean narrative film and television . The project aims to form a direct relationship between South Korea’s political history and the tensions that still define the country’s relationship with its northern counterpart. The result is, in the artist’s words, a “game of exquisite corpse across geopolitical barriers.” The artist developed the experimental soundtrack in collaboration with Korean artists and musicians Bek Hyunjin, Park Minhee, and Ryu Hankil . Offering two vocal renditions of texts from the forty-ninth hexagram of the I-Ching, an ancient Chinese divination manual, the soundtrack composites historical interpretation with translation to speak of revolution and renewal.

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The 49th Hexagram är en dokumentärfilm från 2020, regisserad av Ho Tzu Nyen.

Med en speltid på 0 timmar och 30 minuter är The 49th Hexagram en produktion från North Korea. Originalspråket är koreanska. På Filmotek uppdaterar vi löpande var du kan streama, hyra eller köpa The 49th Hexagram i Sverige.