Like the boys of the French new wave slipping in and out of movie screenings to create a collage of experiences we are once again back to square one.

Jigsaw Pieces: “Breath” (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea)

As discontinuous viewing increasingly becomes the norm and the slicing-up of films via image captures and video editing becomes a key part of the cinephilic experience, it seems more and more like history will be kind to Kim Ki-Duk, director of weak films and strong images. The Kim Effect—whereby the films are somehow less than the sum of their parts—has its inverse in the fact that his films are ready-made Tumblr fodder; like a pocket Bartlett’s, they are endlessly (visually) quotable and yet inconsistent—if not downright repulsive—as single works. In short, films which appear to reveal all of their flaws in projection and all of their strengths upon closer inspection, which penalize a captive audience (usually by way of a lot of stuntish ugliness) and reward context-free perusal.

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