Asia Culture Center

Over many years of division, North and South Korea have become like a hall of mirrors where it is difficult to tell the real from the false. Inspired by real people who have traveled between North and South amid this division, this film depicts a relationship between the two that is so deeply skewed that it is impossible to tell what anyone is working to achieve.

Apprehension Engine approaches cinema not merely as a medium for projecting images, but as a powerful cultural and ideological apparatus that shapes subjectivity and constructs “imagined communities.” At the same time, it examines how cinematic language across Thailand and Asia has articulated and enforced alternative modernities, and at times resisted them.