- Shane Smith visits North Korea, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea( DPRK), to try to penetrate the Korean Feature Film Studio, a state-run film production facility west of the capital Pyongyang.
- You could say that North Korean dictator Kim Jong-il has two primary obsessions: maintaining nuclear weapons capability as a means of protecting his "hermit kingdom," and thwarting pressure from outside forces like America and the rest of the industrialized world to open his country to modern things like electricity - and he's obsessed with film. He loves movies. It's rumored that he has one of the largest private film collections in the world. His favorite film is Gone with the Wind and his favorite actress is Elizabeth Taylor. He's a film collector and bona fide cinephile, but he's much more. He's everything really. He's a director, a producer, a financier, a costume maker, set designer, screenwriter, cameraman, sound engineer - and he's also a film theorist. His masterwork on aesthetics and practice is On the Art of Cinema (written and published in the early 1970s). In it he gives himself the humble title "Genius of the Cinema." He built an extensive film studio in Pyongyang and when he couldn't find someone to make his film he did what any self-respecting eternal leader and great president would do - he kidnapped one.—Ulf Kjell Gür
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