I recently saw Gunner Palace, a film directed by Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein. This work makes a very strong impression. It’s a documentary about the U.S. soldiers in Iraq, and it’s shown from their perspective; not the U.S. military’s.

The film gets its title from the palace where the 2nd Battalion, 3rd Field Artillery Regiment […]

I recently saw the film Address Unknown, directed by the South Korean film maker, Kim Ki-duk. The story is about the inhabitants of a rural town, nearby a U.S. army base, sometime during the 1970s.

Address Unknown is the first film by Kim that I’ve seen; although I’ve been aware of his work for sometime now. […]

Cultural introspection is sometimes seen crawling around the gutters; if at all, in Korea these days. On the surface of things, it seems as though it’s out of vogue to disturb the status quo (here, as in many industrialised countries), from an artistic perspective, or any perspective. And it’s been a few years now since […]