Film
Forest Dancing (Chumchuneun Sup)
D: Kang Seokpil
On 3.5. Q&A with the director
Korea 2012, 95 min, English subtitles
The densely wooded hill in the center of the Seoul district of Sungmisan is slated for development as the site of a private school. Here, since the 1990s, a communal neighborhood project has been experimenting with an ecological yet urban lifestyle. Kang Seokpil documents the Sungmisan community and its residents’ demonstrations for the preservation of their urban oasis and against the loss of values in a society driven by capitalism.
Kang Seokpil (*1970) began as a producer and cameraman for the Seoul Visual Collective. On the films The Border City 1 + 2, he worked behind the camera. Forest Dancing is his debut as a director. He lived in Sungmisan, the setting of this documentary, for ten years.
