Vooruit, Gent, 14 november, 18u00

With its fourth edition of PAUZE, the annual off—stream festival for new music, KRAAK presents you a fresh bunch of unconventional, eccentric and exciting artists. This year we cross space with synth psych, noise gems, Korean folk and jazz, French outsiders and German avant-garde. With a film program, a lecture and a website full of background information, PAUZE offers you enough for three days of pure amazement. This year the festival also takes place in Utrecht...

all info http://www.kraak.net/pauze

Courtisane curates the film programme for The Soul Shredders of Seoul-night of Pauze Festival. The last few years the musical avant-garde of South Korea is blossoming, influenced by Japan they're breaking out of seclusion, bridges with the West are appearing... With Sato Yukie, Kim Do Soo, Kang Tae Hwan, Ryu Hankil and Choi Joonyong.

The film programme:

Gajok Chosanghwa (My Family Portrait)
Kim Young-Jo, 67’, 2007 (KR)
Spurred on by the loss of hair, Director Kim begins a journey of discovery into more than just his genetic make up. As he delves into his family origins, his investigations uncover more than he expects. This family portrait deals with the complexity of relationships and how our perceptions impact our life story. Kim candidly shares with us his feelings, resentments and questions as he learns more about the enigma that is his family. This autobiographical detective story also manages to discrimplications involved in a Korean society opening itself up to the West.

WYSPA
Tae-young Park, 49’, 2004 (KR)
Right in the middle of a tiny island in Korea called Jah Wol-Do is an asylum for elderly people run by a Christian foundation. A 34 year old epileptic woman lives among the old people. Abandoned there by her family, she is placed in the care of the priest, who is more concerned by the escape of some black goats or the effectiveness of the symbol of the cross. She is bored, hurts herself and wants to leave, but cannot, and she is not sure if she is satisfied with a helmet. This strange community gradually mixes the plots…