Shim: American Opens a Cafe at the DMZ

Nov 1, 2024

0h 17m

★ 10.0

The DMZ is dreaming again

Overview

A cafe is growing, tucked in to the mountainside air raid shelter of the DMZ borderlands. A light light flickers, illuminating the past, present, and future. I'll see you at the DMZ! Shim was a free, one-day pop-up cafe staged in Yangji-ri village’s air raid shelter at the Korean DMZ. Referencing Korean cafe culture’s fixation on third place, the DMZ’s evolution from security tourism, to ecological peace tourism, and its repurposing as art production site, Shim attempts to intervene and align the past and present. Yangji-ri was one of many minbuk propaganda villages established by the Park Chung Hee regime in the 1960s to showcase the farming bounty and prosperity of the south for a North Korean gaze. The village was formerly part of the Civilian Control Line (CCL) until 2013 when it was reterritorialized as a normal part of South Korea.

Genres

Documentary

War

History

Action

Shim: American Opens a Cafe at the DMZ Trailers

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Cast

American Artist

Kim Westfall

Themselves

Villagers

Self

DMZ

Korean cafe worker

Kim Westfall

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Shim: American Opens a Cafe at the DMZ

Overview

Genres

Shim: American Opens a Cafe at the DMZ Trailers

Cast

Kim Westfall

Villagers

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Kim Westfall

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