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Korean Film Festival Canada: Exploring sleep, dreams, and the body

A look inside the Montréal-based, non-profit and artist-driven Arts East West’s annual gathering for films, media arts, and more from Korean, Asian Canadian, pan-Asian and Asian diasporic artists.

Rachel Cheng

Rachel Cheng

May 28, 2024- Read time: 3 min
Korean Film Festival Canada: Exploring sleep, dreams, and the bodyJenny Lin, one of the artists whose work can be found at the 11th edition of the Korean Film Festival Canada. | Photograph: Rachel Holly Cheng / @rachelhollycheng

It’s been over a hundred years since film has become a medium to record slices of life, draw audiences into stories, and capture our imagination.

Today, moving images are all around us: on our social media feeds, ads while waiting for the metro, and on the screens we split between work and leisure. At its most banal, it’s a cat video on our phone, and its most poignant, it’s moving images that translate unspoken corners of our psyche.  

This idea of film as an extension of the body and a medium for expressing interiority are behind this year’s Korean Film Festival Canada (KFFC). Hosted in collaboration with McGill’s Moving Image Research Lab’s project, Sociability of Sleep, the theme is “Arts & Technologies: Sleep, Dream, and Body.”

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