Keeping the Vision Alive

Keeping the Vision Alive is a documentary film containing the voices and images of Korean women filmmakersboth senior filmmakers and also the peers of director Yim The film is Yims homage to both contemporary Korean women filmmakers written by a filmmaker of the same age and also to the history of women filmmakers in Korea Yim does not reveal her own voice or opinion and lets the voices and images of the filmmakers speak for themselves through a noninterventionist camera From the pioneers Park Namok and Hwang Hyemi who directed First Experience in 70s to recent filmmakers Byun Youngjoo and Jang Heesun the film traces their experiences troubles concerns and thoughts as women and women filmmakers Keeping the Vision Alive calmly and enthusiastically encourages and celebrates the struggles the resistance and the survival of women filmmakers in a conservative Korean film industry and a maledominated and sexist social system Kwon Eunsun