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Another Method for Remembering and Representing the Jeju April 3 Incident － Focusing on the Documentary Film “Jeju Prayer” －

  • Journal of Humanities
  • 2018, (71), pp.97-132
  • DOI : 10.31310/HUM.071.04
  • Publisher : Institute for Humanities
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : October 10, 2018
  • Accepted : November 2, 2018
  • Published : November 30, 2018

Cho, Myung-Ki 1

1부산대학교

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ABSTRACT

This study will examine how the past and the present collide with each other or encounter by intervening in the opposite entity and how the two can converge on the thematic consciousness of the Jeju April 3 Incident by analyzing the documentary film “Jeju Prayer (2012)” as a text dealing with the memory of the historic incident. The film “Jeju Prayer” is not only a prayer (exorcism) but also a pilgrimage/dark tour. The film repeats the collision and intersection of the two processes by constructing the process of prayer (exorcism) and the process of pilgrimage/dark tour incongruously and in a multi-layered level simultaneously. Through this, the real task of mourning cannot but ceaselessly and continuously be carried out by the present gaze of the agent of mourning, and the Jeju April 3 Incident is preserved as an ‘event’ that would neither be the same nor extinct, located between presence and absence. A place that is actively summoned as it names the Jeju April 3 Incident ‘an event’ is Gangjeong Village, in particular, Gureombi Rock, where Jeju-do Naval Base is being constructed. The camera pays attention to the victims of the Jeju April 3 Incident, who still keep silence, rather than the outsiders who characterize Gangjeong Village into a place where the pros and cons opinions exist over the issue, and thereby enriches the cross point of pilgrimage/dark tour and prayer (exorcism), thus reawakening the present meaning of the incident. Through the two devices of prayer (exorcism) and pilgrimage/dark tour, the two different beings ― outsider/pilgrim and the survivors of the Jeju April 3 Incident ― interpenetrate each other and become the beings that can produce the present anew and can create imagination.

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