Korean Film Archive celebrates 40th anniversary with special exhibition
Korean films with the Korean Film Archive
A film archive is a place that collects preserves and exhibits films. The Korean Film Archive is the only film archive in Korea. For 40 years, the Korean Film Archive has collected, preserved, restored, applied, studied and informed visitors about Korean films and has worked on developing movies in Korea.
This year, the Korean Film Archive celebrates its 40th anniversary with the exhibition “Korean Films with the Korean Film Archive.” The results of four decades of the Korean Film Archive’s work can be viewed, and it will be a great opportunity to see how the archive works. The film storage and archivists’ work place are not usually shown to anyone, but this year, the Korean Film Archive will reproduce these places in the exhibition and will open them to people to develop more interest in the archive.
Retrieve lost films from around the world
The Korean Film Archive has worked with international film archives to track down lost films and has found and collected Korean films from the 1960s and 70s in China, Japan, Taiwan, Hong Kong, etc. Also, it has managed investigators in North America and Western Europe since 2009 to collect films and records relevant to Korea. People can also see these materials that were found in other countries.
Since 2007, the Korean Film Archive has been working on recovering traditional movies in an advanced digital way starting with three traditional Korean movies including <sweet dream-mimong=""> (Yang Ju Nam, 1936). People can watch 15 pieces of recovered films.</sweet>
An analog video reel tape player, U-matic player and other models that are out of production are exhibited.
People who have worked with the Korean Film Archive are shown in Cinema Tech GV events, oral interview films and others.
A film finder, re-winder, etc. that have been used since the 1990s can be found in the archivist’s room. Also, we can see how valuable materials are preserved, and chemical products that help to preserve non-film materials as well.
The top domestic and international movie posters can be viewed.
After the exhibition, please leave your comments in the visitor’s book, which will be stored as a kind of data.
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