arborweb - Ann Arbor online
Follow us on Facebook! Follow us on Twitter! Ann Arbor Observer
    View Photo · Submit
Click for Ann Arbor, Michigan Forecast
February 9, 2012
Young gymast holds her leg next to her head, from

A State of Mind

North Korea's socialist surrealism

by Katie Whitney

posted 2/10/2010

Like Orwell's 1984 come to life, Daniel Gordon's 2003 film A State of Mind documents totalitarianism, complete with ascetic state housing, rations, daily power outages, censorship, and a heavy dose of propaganda. Radios that broadcast state-sanctioned programming are installed in every kitchen. (They may be turned down, but not off.) But this isn't

 
Culture

Arts and Entertainment reviews and news.

>> Blogs

Observatory Lodge
January's I Spy

Denis Matsuev
Not another Russian banger

Verve Pipe
Muscular family music

Energetic Ingenue
Luna Alexander mixes it up.

Eileen Pollack
At home with the militia

Return of an icon
Ron Brooks at the Ravens Club

more culture articles:  1 l 2 l 3 ... 57 >
read more stories here -> Marketplace  l  Culture  l  Community  l  News
Piggyback Turtle
arborlist.com
Need to build web traffic?
arborweb.com
ARCHIVE   l   CONTACT   l   INFO   l   PRIVACY   l   HELP   l   RSS FEEDS   l   SEND A TIP   l   LOG IN
©1998-2012 Ann Arbor Observer - All Rights Reserved