새 세대가 만든 새 영화 - ‘영상시대’의 작품 경향

Abstract

The motto of ‘Young Sang Shi Dae’ as film movement is ‘making Korean film into the art’. Under the grim actualities of real life in 1970's, they believed “the more the film is outstanding and artistic, the more it attracts an audience” and they are sure “when the real soul lost from the film art is recovered, recession of the film is also gone.”At this time, ‘artistic film’ and ‘the real soul of the film art’ mean the ‘New Cinema’, modernism cinema come from Poland, Sweden,France, England, Germany, America, etc after the beginning of neorealism in Italy. Particularly, because ‘New Cinema’ in each nation was “the attempt defining the essence of the film, the effort making the film into the art again and the question asking the relationship between the film and the reality and between the film and the audience”, it could become outstanding example for directors of ‘Young Sang Shi Dae’who thought “Korean film didn't make the real film.”But, unfortunately, their films in a working period of ‘Young Sang Shi Dae’ didn't receive the support of audience, which was different from their convince. Even Where Will We Meet Again? (1977,Hong Pa) and The Ascension of Han-ne (1977, Ha Kilchong) couldn't be opened in Seoul and after selected as ‘quality film in the first half of 1977’, it became dishonorable films of the formality giving the foreign film import quota. Of course, these films are mostly appraised as “a rubbish in comparison with previous films.” But obvious thing is films in this period had a clear difference from films in before and after period of ‘Young Sang Shi Dae’. Also, these films were too outstanding achievements to be considered as ‘a rubbish’. ‘Making Korean film into the art’ pursued by them wasn't just bluffing.