Longfellow, BrendaLee, Helen Hyun-Joo2024-03-182024-03-182024-03-16https://hdl.handle.net/10315/41923Paris to Pyongyang is a 32-minute essay film about post-Korean War era recollections presented through dual narratives: a contingent of French artists and intellectuals visiting North Korea in 1958 who created literary and artistic works (including the feature film Moranbong) about the cross-cultural encounter, and a Korean War family separation story presented from the perspective of the filmmaker’s mother, Jung-Sook Lee. The filmmaker juxtaposes the events and reframes these works and Lee's wartime trauma through a contemporary, inquiring lens. The film proposes how contingencies of language and translation, gender dynamics, and cultural power affect our understanding of socio-political histories and personal, familial memory, in pursuit of new pathways for diasporic aesthetic expressions.Author owns copyright, except where explicitly noted. Please contact the author directly with licensing requests.Film studiesAsian studiesAsian American studiesElectronic Thesis or Dissertation2024-03-16Korean WarDiasporaBorder studiesNorth KoreaChris MarkerClaude LanzmannMoranbongWar traumaImmigration