Film Program
A film program in four chapters. Cinema has always had much in common with the séance. Since the invention of the form, filmmakers have also sought to unsettle the boundaries between image and reality, and to mediate between the living and the dead, the conscious and the unconscious, the rational and the spiritual. Inspired equally by Pier Paolo Pasolini’s vision of cinema as the sacred emanation of the divine within the everyday and Maya Deren’s conception of film as a collective ritual, the 13th Seoul Mediacity Biennale’s film program unfolds in four thematic chapters: Speaking with the Dead; Ancestors Breathing; Psyche and the Screen; and Everyday Mysticism.
※ Ticket booking opens two weeks before each screening.
Speaking with the Dead
2025. 08. 30. 13.00
※ The screening will be introduced by the Biennale’s Artistic Directors
(1) Raúl Ruiz, The Film to Come, 1997
(2) Marcel Camus, Black Orpheus, 1959
2025. 08. 30. 16.10
(3) Lee Jang-ho, The Man with Three Coffins, 1987
2025. 09. 06. 13.00
(4) Mati Diop, Atlantics, 2019
2025. 09. 13. 13.00
(5) Trinh T. Minh-ha, Night Passage, 2004
Ancestors Breathing
2025. 09. 20. 13.00
(6) Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Cemetery of Splendor, 2015
2025. 09. 27. 13.00
(7) Camilo Restrepo, Cilaos, 2016
(8) Souleymane Cissé, Yeelen, 1987
2025. 10. 04. 13.00
(9) Naomi Kawase, The Mourning Forest, 2007
2025. 10. 04. 15.30
(10) Caroline Déodat, Under the Sky of Fetishes, 2023
(11) Go Takamine, Hengyoro (Queer Fish Lane), 2017
Psyche and the Screen
2025. 10. 11. 13.00
(12) Ken McMullen, Ghost Dance, 1983
2025. 10. 18. 13.00
(13) Maya Deren, Meshes of the Afternoon, 1943
(14) Luis Buñuel, That Obscure Object of Desire, 1977
2025. 10. 25. 13.00
(15) Nina Menkes, Phantom Love, 2006
2025. 11. 01. 13.00
(16) Pedro Costa, Horse Money, 2019
Everyday Mysticism
2025. 11. 08. 13.00
(17) Roberto Rossellini, The Miracle, 1948
(18) Jean-Luc Godard, Hail Mary, 1985
2025. 11. 15. 13.00
(19) Pier Paolo Pasolini, The Earth as Seen from the Moon, 1967
(20) Abbas Kiarostami, Taste of Cherry, 1997
2025. 11. 22. 13.00
(21) Alice Rohrwacher, La Chimera, 2023
