Park Kyoungtae
PARK Kyoungtae (1975, South Korea) studied sociology and visual anthropology. Since 2000, he has made documentaries on women and children from a US military camp town in South Korea. In 2012 he co-directed Tour of Duty with Kim Dongryung, a documentary about Park Insun, a former US military ‘comfort woman’. The Pregnant Tree and the Goblin (2019) is a fictionalised version of her biography and was in competition at the Seoul Independent Film Festival.
Filmografie
Me and the Owl (2003, doc), There Is (2005, doc), Old Soldiers Never Die, But (2008, short), Geomiui ttang/Tour of Duty (2012, doc, co-dir), The Journey of a Door (2015, short), Imsinhan namuwa dokkaebi/The Pregnant Tree and the Goblin (2019, co-dir)
Park Kyoungtae op IFFR
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The Pregnant Tree and the Goblin
Kim Dongryung, Park Kyoungtae | 115' | South Korea | International premiere
Former ‘comfort woman’ at an American base in Korea re-writes her history into something supernatural. Sublime.