Publisher/L'Arachnéen

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"Coréennes" is the first and only collection of French filmmaker and photographer Chris Marker's works, published in 1959 as part of the "Courts-Métrages" (Short Films) series in the Éditions du Seuil magazine. Marker visited North Korea during the Cold War in 1958 as part of an official delegation of French intellectuals. Rather than attempting to explain the political situation, Marker quietly focused on the expressions, gestures, and fragments of everyday life of the people he encountered. The photographs and text are not used as materials for interpreting systems or ideologies, but rather as a record of moments of interaction with others. The women, in particular, resist symbolization and emerge as individuals who return the gaze. As Marker himself writes at the end of the book, "At the end of this journey there is human friendship; the rest is silence," this work avoids excessive narrative and leaves the limits and possibilities of seeing to the reader. In the 2018 re-edited edition, this restrained attitude is made even clearer, and the book is reinterpreted as a book that questions the relationship between image and silence at the crossroads of photographic history and cinematic thought. The text is in French.