Sometimes a film is all we need to be consoled and inspired.
As a major film company, Myung Films has produced 36 films over the past 20 years.
Myung Films Art Center has opened in Paju in a hope to build a small city of films.
# F1. Book Café
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Myung Films has earned a reputation as a masterpiece maker by producing impressive films that resonated with the culture of the time.
The film company has now created a city of films in Paju city, near Seoul, which is regarded as the center of culture and arts,
to serve as a hub for developing, sharing, and expanding film-centered cultural content.
It is also notable that the building of Myung Films Art Center is a work by Korea’s major architect Hyo-sang Seung.
This building was designed to have distinctively unique appearances from all four directions.
Located inside the book cafe on the ground floor, the film library stimulates visitors’ intellectual curiosity
for films with not only books on films, architecture, and design selected by Myung Films, IROJE, and Paju
Typography Institute (PaTI), but also a range of other collections including OST collections produced
and presented by Myung Films, books on art films, novels and animations made into films.
# B1, F2, F3. Theater and Performance Hall
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The underground floor is used as a movie theater.
Based on the film company’s long experience in film production, the theater was completed
with digital 4K projection system and a 3D sound system for Dolby Atmos—the surround sound technology
developed by Dolby Laboratories—and shows films according to monthly planned themes.
The pure-white ticket booth and resting area is particularly impressive.
Unlike most movie theaters filled with blue and neon lights, this space more closely resembles a room in a gallery.
The second floor rings with the sounds of hammers and rolling wheels.
The second and third floors are currently undergoing the final touches to complete
a multi-purpose performance hall designed like a black box with 250 seats.
This space will be used for various genres of musicals, plays, and concerts,
as well as for a range of lectures, parties and exhibitions, and will feature all-encompassing artistic
and cultural performances to bring Paju’s cultural ecosystems to a higher level.
# F4. Art Lab
To be Continued…
Occupying the fourth floor are two spaces dedicated for exhibitions: Art Lab 15 and Art Lab 28,
which display the works of artists from a range of areas, from modern painting to music to design.
Art Lab 15 is currently exhibiting “Assembled: Layer Set Play,” a new-concept furniture experience,
and Art Lab 28 features “Crossing Waves,” which tries to realize the possible crossroads between the two waves of images and music.
The desk, table, drawer, and bedside table displayed in Art Lab 15 present themselves as something more than objects by revealing their wood grains.
Meanwhile, video artist Raya Kim fills the space of Art Lab 28 with images made with six musicians
who are receiving growing attention in their respective genre with outstanding musical talent
The time at Myung Films Art Center with films, a composite art, will certainly delight the eyes and ears of all visitors.
How about watching a movie that touches your soul to cheer you up on a midsummer night with a cool breeze?
