Motel Drinks | Korean Film Set Posters
Motel Drinks
Artist: Han Jong Sil
Year: 2003
Medium: Gyclee Print on art paper
Edition: of 20
Size: A3
Price: 120 EUR
ID: P008
Pyongyang Film Studio
The North Korean Film Studio was established in 1947. It built permanent sets to shoot pro-revolutionary films that were very much against the Japanese colonization of the country and the US presence in South Korea. Now, they are currently renovating the Pyongyang Film Studio.
Over the years, artists from the Pyongyang Film Studio were instructed to paint advertisements and hoardings to make the sets look realistic and to create a North Korean view of foreign street scenes.
The posters North Korean artists dreamt up as ‘imperialist advertising’ and previously used to make the streets more authentic are being removed.
Motel Drinks
A poster from Japanese Street, Motel Drinks displays a pretty waitress in her Kimono at a motel serving saki. The red Japanese characters suggest that in this motel women will be available to drink with the men.
In other words, a place where all sorts of loose behaviour goes on behind closed doors.
Portrayals of the evil Japanese and their bawdy capitalist lifestyle are regular themes in North Korean films. None more so than in the film series ‘Nation and Destiny’.(See more on North Korean films).
Lamer Hair Salon
Artist: Han Jong Sil
Year: 2003
Medium: Gyclee Print on art paper
Edition: of 20
Size: A3
Price: 120 EUR
ID: P002
Yakgodyo
Artist: Han Jong Sil
Year: 2003
Medium: Gyclee Print on art paper
Edition: of 20
Size: A3
Price: 120 EUR
ID: P006
Cafe
Artist: Han Jong Sil
Year: 2003
Medium: Gyclee Print on art paper
Edition: of 20
Size: A3
Price: 120 EUR
ID: P004
OK
Artist: Han Jong Sil
Year: 2003
Medium: Gyclee Print on art paper
Edition: of 20
Size: A3
Price: 120 EUR
ID: P003
