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Instead I had to look for answers in the footage I brought back and in the North Korean material—songs, cinema, spectacle, publications—that I researched. Night was falling as we crossed over a snowy mountain range.

Songs from the North

Our Deepest Wish is Reunification was a popular children's song when I was growing up in Seoul, South Korea.

Reunification was considered the only remedy, a destiny.

When I finally was able to travel to North Korea in December 2010 I crossed the Tumen River, the border with China, where a North Korean guide met me at customs and accompanied me in a state-run taxi. Yoo’s films embrace and expand avant- garde and essayistic modes of non-fiction cinema, reopening forgotten, often suppressed, chapters of modern history in order to explore the still unresolved conflicts and collective memories that continue to haunt and define the Korean Peninsula....

The pain felt by Koreans was real, not imagined. Some people carried bundles of kindling, gathered in wooden A-frames on their back. What remained were the beauty of their faces, and the melodies of the songs which carried a genuine emotion that I found consoling. Yoo's films embrace and expand avant-garde and essayistic modes of non-fiction cinema, reopening forgotten, often suppressed, chapters of modern history in order to explore the still unresolved conflicts and collective memories that continue to haunt and define the Korean Peninsula.

She has an M.A., German Literature, Yonsei University, Korea; 1984 - B.A., German Literature, Yonsei University, Korea

Studios

Nef

Soon-Mi Yoo worked in the Nef studio.

Endowed funds for the studio’s maintenance in perpetuity and an annual Fellowship for photographers were given in addition to funds for construction.

in Photography at the Massachusetts College of Arts where she is currently a member of the Film/Video faculty. It was the coldest winter in thirty years on the Korean Peninsula. The longer I stared at the images, the longer I listened to their voices, I no longer saw the propaganda. I wondered how they were able to find their way in complete darkness.

Reunification occupied a large part of public and private discourse.

This exhibition aims to raise funds, through sale of work, to enable the future sustainability of San Art.

Soon-Mi Yoo

Disciplines:Interdisciplinary Arts

Region:Cambridge, MA

Born in South Korea, Soon-Mi Yoo studied German Literature at Yonsei University before earning an M.F.A.

Another was dragging a tree trunk. I also came to understand that these are people who would rather die than be humiliated and subjugated. The next morning I looked out my hotel window in Rajin City and saw people running from the cold. The separation between North and South was considered unnatural, as if a living being had been severed in half.

I was deeply moved by the grace and dignity of the North Koreans I met during that trip and during my two subsequent visits in the summers of 2011 and 2012.

I was never able to ask my question to any North Koreans.