Documentary_The Empire of Shame

Published: 07 March 2016
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Beyond Border
Documentary Film Series
Venue: Audiovisual Theater, NCCU Art & Culture Center

 

The Empire of Shame 

  • Date & Time: 26/05/2016 19:00-20:40
  • Hong Li-gyeong│2013│92 min│South Korea│
  • HDCAM│COLOR│G│Chinese & English subtitles

A documentary about the continuing case of Samsung semiconductor plant. "It was like I was in a different world. Men and women all wore same clothes and it looked like a small country. There were a factory, dormitory, even hospital. Just being there was sort of making me feel good. I can recall the first time I was in manufacturing line. Real robots working there." The film is a story about nameless people wearing white coat, hat and mask worked in a clean room exposing eyes only.

 

Hong Li-gyeong││Director
Hong Li-gyeong majored in documentary studies at ESEC, a movie school in France. Later, she joined 'PURN Production' in Korea. There, she made her first feature film, 《The empire of shame》, which follows the stories of Samsung Semiconductor workers' who have been ill from work-related disease.