Stateless Things, Film screening, reception, and discussion w/ director Kyungmook Kim is on Monday, October 23 at 7:00 p.m. in the Main Lounge of Allen Hall, 1005 W. Gregory Drive, Urbana.  Free and open to the public. Free parking is available in the garage across the street.

Kyungmook Kim is one of the most widely known and respected artists working in Korean LGBT and independent cinema today. In 2014 the Association of Korean Independent Film and Video named him the Filmmaker of the Year, and just a few months later, the Korean government imprisoned him for being a gay conscientious objector. Kim’s works interrogate the ways in which marginalized members of Korean society (ethnic and sexual minorities, political refugees) create spaces for themselves on the borders between visibility and invisibility, presence and absence.

This event is free and open to the public, and is sponsored by generous contributions from Unit One/Allen Hall; the Center for Advanced Study; the University Library; the Center for East Asian Languages and Cultures; the School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics; the Program in Comparative and World Literature; the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; the Department of Media and Cinema Studies; and the University of Illinois LGBT Resource Center.

Trailer:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Khyzl2C1L1U

Thanks to Laura Haber of Unit One/Allen Hall for this information item.