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Sound of Nomad: Koryo Arirang

  • May 2017
  • 1hr

    36mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Kim So-young,

    Starring

    Bang Tamara,

    Lee Ham-deok,

    The documentary starts with a diva of a tragic family history related to a history of migration. The rare archival footage reanimates her history reverberating with the current world crisis. Sound of Nomad: Koryo Arirang is a testimonial – a witness to injustice and tragedy, but it is also a declaration of survival – a survival that is not static but transformative – not brittle but fluid. The trains that displace, the deserts that separate form one harsh horizon – a historical limit – but within that limit, against it and across it are people, are a culture, not escaping but flourishing unofficially, with the affective majesty of a melody, a rhythm, an Arirang