My Little TelevisionMy Little Television

This film sharply points out the core of the cultural diversity discourse. Myung-hak visits the house of Hae-ryun in Dae-rim dong for an interview commissioned by a regional Chinese broadcaster in Yan-ji to commemorate Geum-soon’s 100th birthday. Hae-ryun’s family welcomes Myung-hak, but he somehow seems unsatisfied. He cannot shoot the interview as he intended because of Geum-soon’s lengthy dialogues and tactless actions of her family. In the end, Myung-hak goes out to the streets of Dae-rim dong, the biggest Korean-Chinese community in Seoul, to find something to shoot. My Little Television confronts the desires to reproduce the appearance of diversity through specific identities. The diaspora’s peculiarity in seeing its own reproduction makes its technical intent a farce. Myung-hak has to complete his mission as a communicator, in a world where the ease of communication rather hinders it. Latest film from LI Hongmei, director of Pollock, an Official Selection of the 5th DIAFF. (PARK Chi-young)