한국 독립 다큐멘터리의 주제 및 양식적 다양화에 대한 고찰

Abstract

Unlike ‘the independent cinema’ in the western world, the words‘Korean Independent documentary’ reflect the specificity of Koreanhistory and politics. Appearing in the late 1980s for the first time,korean independent documentaries became the powerful weapons forthe activists who had been struggling for the democracy of Korea. Theywanted to report the social irregularities and conflicts between twoclasses and reform the social systems with the help of camera. To thosewho regarded the camera as the weapon for the struggle at that time, itwas not important whether the esthetics of the films were good or not. The most important thing was immediacy. How rapidly they canannounce the labourer's struggle and expand the front line was the mostimportant thing. But as the social struggle declines, many independentdocumentary film makers began in earnest to worry about their future. What kind of documentary should they make? What style could theymake use of? Responding to the changing social, industrial environmentand the needs of audiences, documentary film makers have conductedvarious esthetic experiments. One of the most important issues for themwas how to build relationships with the objects. It was related to the ethics of documentaries and as the result of it, various self-reflectivedocumentaries emerged and now much more diverse modes are beingmade. Now many korean documentaries got richer thematically andesthetically as contrasted with the past times. But in a way, we can alsosay that they fell into mannerism in another sense and need to overcomeit.