Movie Night at the OACC: Mother (Bong, 2009) at Oakland Asian Cultural Center
Tuesday, 19 June, 2012
|Join us for Movie Night at the OACC!
This month we will be screening "Mother" (마�") by Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho. The film depicts a woman (Kim Hya-ja) devoted to her son, Do-joon, a shy boy with an intellectual disability. Do-joon is falsely accused of the murder of a young girl and the film follows his mother as she protects him and tries to uncover the truth. Directed and co-written by Bong Joon-ho, who also directed the critically acclaimed monster flick "The Host", "Mother" was an official selection of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and Kim Hya-ja was awarded Best Performance by an Actress at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. In a New York Times review, film critic A.O. Scott wrote on Kim’s performance:
"The hard-pounding heart of “Mother,” Ms. Kim is a wonderment. Perched on the knife edge between tragedy and comedy, her delivery gives the narrative - which tends to drift, sometimes beguilingly, sometimes less so - much of its momentum. At times it feels as if Ms. Kim is actually willing it, or perhaps Mr. Bong, forward. Yet white Mother can seem like a caricature of monstrous maternity (“You and I are one,” she insists to the jailed Do-joon) the performance is enormously subtle, filled with shades of gray that emerge in tandem with the unwinding investigation."
The film will be introduced by Jackie Im. Im is an independent curator and writer based in Oakland, CA. She received her BA in Art History from Mills College and her MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts. She has curated exhibitions at the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, Liminal Space, Pro Arts, Liminal Space and the Mills College Art Museum. Im has also assisted on exhibitions at Yerba Beuna Center for the Arts, Queens Nails Projects, Intersection for the Arts and the Walter and McBean Galleries at SFAI. In addition to curating, Im also organizes Movie Night at the OACC, a monthly screening at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. She is currently a curator and co-administrator of MacArthur B Arthur, a gallery and project space in Oakland, as well as co-editor of Art Cards San Francisco.
Mother 2009 128 minutes
7pm Tuesday June 19, 2012
$5 suggested donation, no one is turned away due to lack of funds.
Movie Night at the OACC is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. For more information about the OACC, please visit www.oacc.cc. For more information on Movie Night at the OACC, please visit oaccmovienight.tumblr.com
Movie Night at the OACC is a monthly screening night organized by Jackie Im.
This month we will be screening "Mother" (마�") by Korean filmmaker Bong Joon-ho. The film depicts a woman (Kim Hya-ja) devoted to her son, Do-joon, a shy boy with an intellectual disability. Do-joon is falsely accused of the murder of a young girl and the film follows his mother as she protects him and tries to uncover the truth. Directed and co-written by Bong Joon-ho, who also directed the critically acclaimed monster flick "The Host", "Mother" was an official selection of the 2009 Cannes Film Festival and Kim Hya-ja was awarded Best Performance by an Actress at the 2009 Asia Pacific Screen Awards. In a New York Times review, film critic A.O. Scott wrote on Kim’s performance:
"The hard-pounding heart of “Mother,” Ms. Kim is a wonderment. Perched on the knife edge between tragedy and comedy, her delivery gives the narrative - which tends to drift, sometimes beguilingly, sometimes less so - much of its momentum. At times it feels as if Ms. Kim is actually willing it, or perhaps Mr. Bong, forward. Yet white Mother can seem like a caricature of monstrous maternity (“You and I are one,” she insists to the jailed Do-joon) the performance is enormously subtle, filled with shades of gray that emerge in tandem with the unwinding investigation."
The film will be introduced by Jackie Im. Im is an independent curator and writer based in Oakland, CA. She received her BA in Art History from Mills College and her MA in Curatorial Practice from California College of the Arts. She has curated exhibitions at the Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, Liminal Space, Pro Arts, Liminal Space and the Mills College Art Museum. Im has also assisted on exhibitions at Yerba Beuna Center for the Arts, Queens Nails Projects, Intersection for the Arts and the Walter and McBean Galleries at SFAI. In addition to curating, Im also organizes Movie Night at the OACC, a monthly screening at the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. She is currently a curator and co-administrator of MacArthur B Arthur, a gallery and project space in Oakland, as well as co-editor of Art Cards San Francisco.
Mother 2009 128 minutes
7pm Tuesday June 19, 2012
$5 suggested donation, no one is turned away due to lack of funds.
Movie Night at the OACC is sponsored by the Oakland Asian Cultural Center. For more information about the OACC, please visit www.oacc.cc. For more information on Movie Night at the OACC, please visit oaccmovienight.tumblr.com
Movie Night at the OACC is a monthly screening night organized by Jackie Im.
Cost
$5Venue
Oakland Asian Cultural Center
388 9th Street, Suite 290
Oakland, CA 94607
Oakland, CA 94607