추석/ Chuseok

 

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As the Roosevelt administration planned to move off the gold standard, some industrialists became hysterical…

Climate change in Singapore

 

Climate change in South Korea

 

Adapting short stories: Young Goodman Brown

  A lot of canonical short fiction is either not adapted to film, or turned into audio books (novels are preferred for film adaptations).

However, there are exceptions. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s Young Goodman Brown was adapted as a movie. The trailer here: https://youtu.be/VuY0qRI-7mM?si=hnc_ZHl0g3vLmbsj

(There’s apparently another professional film version of it, too.) 

I can’t judge the entire film but it’s obvious even from the trailer that the both dialogue and tone of the story are changed.

This young filmmaker version of the story *does* make an attempt to stay true to the short story’s tone but abbreviates it radically and has uneven dialogue that’s sometimes true to the text and sometimes has an updated, goofily contemporary, quality that’s impossible to take seriously: https://youtu.be/N3vQu25X2RI?si=yuFW8E5upO1pK0pZ

So film adaptations are hard to pull off without losing much of the original beauty of the story, which lies in its language.

Yet the audio books lack the visual interestingness that a short story like this would inspire a lot of filmmakers. 

And so we come full circle: how can one adapt a short story to film and new media, while still retaining the beauty of the original?

https://youtu.be/Nq6AY2AaEe4?si=wFqLGdjEdh5xhKsW

Yongin at night

 

Markets in Singapore

 

Your World

 Very happy that my hybrid documentary/ moviepoem about market culture vs urban commercialism, entitled “Your World”, was just selected by Goa Short Film Festival via FilmFreeway.com. 

If curious, YouTube link: youtu.be/kaI1ZtdRVPA?si… 

#Korea #marketplace #rural

용인 밤에/ Yongin at night

 

Seocho-gu, Seoul

 

Travel in Singapore

 An overview of travel in Singapore.

The Business Army: Roosevelt’s Inauguration 3

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Roosevelt’s first inauguration 3

The Business Army: Roosevelt’s Inauguration 2

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Roosevelt’s first inauguration 2

The Business Army: Roosevelt’s Inauguration 1

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Roosevelt’s first inauguration 1

Herbert Hoover had taken a lassez faire approach to overcoming the stock market crash of 1929; the approach failed miserably. Roosevelt was elected on a platform of revitalization and increased government spending— a New Deal that seemed revolutionary at the time.

Seocho-gu, Seoul

 

명동 성당/ Myoungdong Cathedral

 

Greening Korea: When Festivals Lose Their Focus

 

Art in Singapore

 

Darkness Lighting Darkness

 What colour, the void?

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Clip from the authorial moviepoem Darkness Lighting Darkness, to be screened soon at IFF Akrobat in St Petersburg.

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Also from this series: 

Wind Circles, part one

https://youtu.be/WK13A9N8qiA

The Business Army , September 6/23

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Roosevelt’s first inauguration 1

Herbert Hoover had taken a lassez faire approach to overcoming the stock market crash of 1929; the approach failed miserably. Roosevelt was elected on a platform of revitalization and increased government spending— a New Deal that seemed revolutionary at the time.

Green Tea Festival in Insadong

 

Insadong Green Tea Festival