Soyoung Kim has made ‘Women’s History Trilogy’(Koryu: Southern women/South Korea, I’ll Be Seeing Her, New Woman: Her First Song) which was screened at many international film festivals including Yamagata International Documentary Film Festival. She also has made a feature-length fiction film entitled Viewfinder(Kyung)(2010) and a documentary Drifting City about African traders in Guangzhou, China. Her recent works on Koryo people include ‘Exile Trilogy’ which consists of Heart of Snow, Heart of Blood, Sound of Nomad: Koryo Arirang, and Goodbye My Love, North Korea.
Sound of Nomad: Koryo Arirang starts with a diva of a tragic family history related to a history of migration. The rare archival footage re-animates her history reverberating with the current world crisis. This is a testimonial – a witness to injustice and tragedy, but it is also a declaration of survival – a survival that is not static but…