Author Jamie Jungyoon Tak

‘Be pleased then, you, the living, in your delightfully warmed bed, before Lethe’s ice-cold wave licks your escaping foot.’  – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Roman Elegies, 1790 From Goethe’s cautionary prelu...

Above all, František Vláčil’s Adelheid (1969) is a film about the place and (dis)placement of home. How to define home? The warmest corner of the world, or a space which “holds childhood motionless in its arms....