Aim high in creation [dvd]
2015
DVDs
AIM HIGH IN CREATION is a revolutionary comedy about the cinematic genius of North Korea’s late Dear Leader Kim Jong-Il, with a ground breaking experiment at its heart: a propaganda film, made according to the rules of his 1987 Manifesto The Cinema and Directing. Determined to stop a new gas mine near her Sydney home, director Anna Broinowski (Forbidden Lies) goes to North Korea to learn from the masters of propaganda cinema. In a worldwide first, Pyongyang's top directors, composers and movie stars take her to script rehearsals, Taekwondo stunt fights, group dances, drunken picnics, and a film shoot on a real-life captured US spy ship – to teach her Kim Jong Il's techniques. Back in Sydney, Anna's fearless cast follow the North Koreans' instructions to produce a didactic socialist melodrama, full of song and kick-ass fights, in which “heroic workers” rise up to defeat the “evil, gas-fracking miners.” Through the shared love of cinema, AIM HIGH forges an astonishing new bond – between North Korea's hidden filmmakers, and their collaborators in the Free World. Revealing an unexpected truth about the most isolated nation on earth: Filmmakers, no matter where they live - are Family.
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Imprint:
Australia : Distributed by Vendetta Films, [2015]©2013
Collation:
1 DVD-video (96 min.) : sound, colour ; 12 cm.
Variant title:
At foot of title: North Korea unveiled
Notes:
Catalogued from container.Vendetta Films : VF1550.Special features : Interviews with cast and crew ; Featurettes.English and Korean. English subtitles.
Credits:
Written and directed by Anna Broinowski ; produced by Lizzette Atkins.
Performers:
Anna Broinowski, Susan Prior, Peter O'Brien, Kathryn Beck, Matt Zeremes, Elliott Weston.
Audience:
Classification : M.
System details:
DVD video, Dolby digital 5.1, PAL, Region 4, anamorphic widescreen 1.78:1.
Shelving notes:
36002 1 03-03-2015 0 doc kor 2 nyctro 03-03-2015 7
Awards:
Official selection MIFF Film Festival 2013 ; Nominated AACTA Award for best direction in a documentary ; Winner best film St. Petersburg Film Festival 2014.
Dewey class:
791.430233303.375791.4302
Language:
English
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Subject:
BRN:
38746
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kathleen Syme Carlton | DVD Non Fiction | 791.4302 AIM | Available |