Before sliding into the uniform of his father, the dictator and founder of the “Republic” of North Korea, Kim Jong II was passionate about film. He was said to have a collection of 20,000 videos, with a predilection for action films… from the West of course. One-time director of Arts and Humanities at the Department of Agitation and Propaganda, he wrote in the 1970s an essay on the theoretical practice of how the 7th art should express the ideology in place. Jan Iljäs drew inspiration from the clear principles of the “Shining Star” to create a short film composed of shots taken during a touristic trip to the country.
Jan Ijäs
Director
I Am Bruce Lee76%
Burma VJ: Reporter i et lukket land72%
Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction69%
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty77%
Heart of a Dog65%
Thought Crimes62%
Extremis69%
Night Will Fall76%
East of Main Street: Asians Aloud60%
David Bowie: Five Years75%
The Art of the Steal69%
Bruce Lee, the Legend79%
Ram Dass, Going Home58%
More Than Miyagi: The Pat Morita Story71%
Rich Hill69%
Iverson70%
Room 23761%
The Mole: Undercover in North Korea70%
Wick Is Pain74%
The U.S. vs. John Lennon67%
