Shim: American Opens a Cafe at the DMZ

Shim: American Opens a Cafe at the DMZ

The DMZ is dreaming again

2024 en 17 minutes

Rating: 10

Plot

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.

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Cast

Kim Westfall

Kim Westfall

American Artist

Villagers

Villagers

Themselves

DMZ

DMZ

Self

Kim Westfall

Kim Westfall

Korean cafe worker

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