“Talking Architect,” the architecture human documentary film that draws the last one year of the architect Guyon Chung’s life, was released on the Mar 8, 2012.
It is, however, a minor low budget architecture documentary; it would not be strange even if people question “who would be willing to pay to watch it.” And thus architecture fans had to recommend one another to watch it.
But I have belief in this film that it will last long and become like a blockbuster movie at the end. It is not only because this film is now on screen at 20 movie theaters, but you will see if you watch it how well made this film is.
“Talking Architect” draws the time when Chung was preparing for his personal exhibition “Response: Guyon Chung Architecture” at Ilmin Art Center in 2010. Regardless of depth and complexness of the topic, the film conveys from Chung’s perspective how he thought of architecture and the world with warm and relaxing ambiance.
It has been one year from Chung’s death, and he is back.
He who fought lonely to make architecture more for public is born again by sensitive touch of a movie director—who is not an architect—and became light to this world.
Chung passed away earlier than anyone among architects in his generation, but his message remains as an echo to the reality of Korea’s modern architecture and warns us that it has lost its direction and become weaker. And Jeong Jae-eun, the movie director, was able to deliver his message to us via “Talking Architect.”
She was already well recognized internationally by her film “Take Care of My Cat (2001)”. But even to her, “Talking Architect” was the first documentary film that might have been unfamiliar. Fortunately, director Jeong was interested in city and architecture and had insight into those topics. She already has shown it in her previous works, so she was able to derive people’s communication and sympathy on architecture better than any critic or journalist.
There was a comment left on the film’s online page “if you are pursuing a way of architect, this film is El Dorado (the golden city in Spanish).” This film, indeed, is appreciated by its comfortable approach to audiences, including people who are not familiar with architecture; it helps them find the true value of architecture by combining the concept of architecture with our daily life. I am very glad that, because of this film, I could write this article with pleasure and hope rather than disappointment.
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Writer:
Yee OhJooEun
architectural journalist
email: yojest@naver.com
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Original article : http://www.conslove.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=28182 (Korean language)
