Hong Sangsoo: The Human Comedy poster, 2024
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£30.00
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2024
Digital Print on 250gsm Silk paper
40 x 30 in
Designed by Brian J Hung
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Retrospective poster produced to coincide with The Human Comedy: The Cinema of Hong Sangsoo.
Since the last UK retrospective of his work in 2010, South Korean filmmaker Hong Sangsoo has made an astonishing twenty-two feature films and several shorts. With his incisive and humorous explorations of infidelity, artistic endeavour, and communication (or lack thereof), Hong’s narratively concise and formally radical work has marked him out as not only contemporary cinema’s most prolific filmmaker but also its most inventive.
Since 2010 Hong has consistently and radically reinvented his approach to the medium. From his repurposing of the zoom as an instrument capable of oscillating between comedic and tragic registers, to his mesmeric utilisation of repetition, ellipses, and general temporal disruption.
In the process it has become abundantly clear that each of Hong’s film is a part of something larger, and the most illuminating way both to view and consider these films is as a body of work. As Joachim Lepastier writes ‘...his films would thus be chapters of a vaster and more continuous oeuvre to which the work of time would give its material and density...'.