VR Programme 1 – Gina Kim

Times & Tickets - Studio/K
Bloodless 

Gina KIM | South Korea, USA | 2017 | 12′

First part of Gina Kim’s VR trilogy on US military comfort women in South Korea. Bloodless traces the last day in the life of an actual sex worker murdered by a US soldier in 1992. The VR film transposes a historical and political issue into a personal and concrete experience.

 

Tearless

Gina KIM | South Korea, USA | 2021 | 12′

Second part of Gina Kim’s VR trilogy on US military comfort women in South Korea. Tearless focuses on the memories of women within a medical prison established by the South Korean government and staffed by the US military in 1970s to isolate and treat US military comfort women with STDs

 

COMFORtLESS

Gina KIM | South Korea, USA | 2023 | 16′

Third part of Gina Kim’s VR trilogy on US military comfort women in South Korea. In 1969, a 500-unit brothel, recruiting women from across the country, was established for the US military in Kunsan. Viewers traverse this uncanny deserted town, guided by the ghosts, sounds, and voices from its past.