Pizzas for the people — Kim Hwang (South Korea) | FESTIVAL AKCENT 2014

North Korean leader Kim Jong-il loved pizza. He decreed that the whole nation must taste this delicacy. But in Pyongyang there is only one pizzeria. Kim Hwang created a video in which he teaches North Koreans how to bake pizza themselves. With the help of Chinese businessmen he smuggled disks with the video into North Korea. The result of all this is the subject of Hwang's film-theatre performance.

'Smuggling' has been introduced to the world!

With the aim of challenging current cultural obstacles in North Korea which is one of the most culturally isolated countries in the world, a South Korean artist has contacted a number of Chinese smugglers in China to distribute illegal propaganda over the border to North Korea, through the popular DVD format, since DVD players are widely found in North Korean homes. The work, Pizzas for the People, is a series of designed insertions that explore how design can playfully contribute and impact on a social and cultural level, subtly challenging an ideological status quo.
 

SOUVENIR SHOP 2 – An interactive installation by Eliška Vrbová and Renata Malá
A memory shop in the form of a non-traditional jukebox. Instead of your favourite songs you can choose a trip down memory lane with a miner from Kladno or a grandmother from the Ore Mountains.
Located in the foyer of the theatre throughout the festival.

5. TH ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OD DOCUMENTARY THEATRE

Prague – Archa Theatre and Baráčnická rychta / Plzeň – KC Peklo

November 20—30

Complete program of the festival

The co-organizer of Akcent is  Plzen 2015 – European Capital of Culture.

The following performances will be presented in Plzen:

Thursday, 20 November, 19:30 , Plzen – KC Peklo theatre - video
Kim Hwang (South Korea) – Pizzas for the people
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il loved pizza. He decreed that the whole nation must taste this delicacy. But in Pyongyang there is only one pizzeria. Kim Hwang created a video in which he teaches North Koreans how to bake pizza themselves. With the help of Chinese businessmen he smuggled disks with the video into North Korea. The result of all this is the subject of Hwang's film-theatre performance.
In Korean with Czech and English subtitles.

Thursday, 27 November, 19:30, Plzen – KC Peklo theatre
Barbora Schneiderová / Storytelling CZ and Plechárna Černý most
Sheet Metal Suburb
Five stories from the Prague suburb of Černý Most. Who can best tell you about the houses, streets and people in Černý Most? Those who live there. The storytellers are people from the suburb, neighbours and friends. You can meet them every day in the same bus or convenience store.  Five different perspectives on life in the suburbs.

Sunday, 30 November, 19:30, Plzen – KC Peklo theatre
Jana Svobodová, Philipp Schenker / Theatre Archa – vadí-nevadí.cz / Who's a chicken and who's a hero?
In the small East Bohemian town of Kostelec nad Orlicí three communities live side by side: long-time ethnic Czech residents, Roma, and foreigners in the local refugee camp. A team from the Archa Theatre together with representatives of all these groups created a moving theatrical depiction of life in a regular town.