CineVegas Film Festival 2008

Ready for a Marxist-Leninist-musical documentary? Jim Finn, the Busby Berkeley of propaganda, follows a South Korean video artist in North Korea who hopes to revitalize Juche (pronounced choo-CHAY) cinema, somewhat inspired by a true story of a South Korean filmmaker kidnapped in the '70s to improve the North Korean film industry.

In the mod '60s, film fanatic Kim Jong Il adapted his father’s Juche philosophy to propaganda, film, and art. Translated as self-reliance, Juche is a hybrid of Confucianism and Stalinist pseudo-socialism.

Finn (Interkosmos, CV06), is the undisputed champion of propaganda as pure art, and this is his best yet. He employs documentary, formal avant-garde, language lesson videos, and sci-fi recreations to examine the souls of governments, leaders, and the media. This is no kitsch mockumentary, just a careful analysis of the love of cinema that is as surreally funny as it is true. Isn’t art revolutionary?

Will be preceded by "Plot Point."

Public Contact Info:
finn.jim@gmail.com
www.jimfinn.org
Jim Finn
1913 5th Avenue
Troy NY 12180
773-531-4988