''A State of Mind'' is a 2004
documentary film
A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a historical record". Bill Nichols has characterized the documentary in te ...
directed
Director may refer to:
Literature
* ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine
* ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker
* ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty
Music
* Director (band), an Irish rock band
* ''D ...
by
Daniel Gordon and produced by
Nicholas Bonner.
[Justin Corfield, ''Historical Dictionary of Pyongyang 2013'', page 16 "Nick Bonner has also been involved in the production of a number of films on the DPRK including The Game of Their Lives (2001) about the North Korean World Cup soccer team, A State of Mind (2005) about two young girls taking part in the ..."] It follows two
North Korea
North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...
n child
gymnast
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s and their families for over eight months during training for the 2003
Pyongyang
Pyongyang (, , ) is the capital and largest city of North Korea, where it is known as the "Capital of the Revolution". Pyongyang is located on the Taedong River about upstream from its mouth on the Yellow Sea. According to the 2008 populat ...
mass games
Mass games or mass gymnastics are a form of performing arts or gymnastics in which large numbers of performers take part in a highly regimented performance that emphasizes group dynamics rather than individual prowess.
North Korea
Mass games a ...
. The film won two awards at the North Korean
Pyongyang International Film Festival in 2004 and was shown at 11 other film festivals worldwide before being released in a theatrical run in 2005.
UK-based dance band
Faithless used clips from the documentary for the video to the single "
I Want More."
See also
*
''The Game of Their Lives'' (2002), a previous film by Daniel Gordon and Nicholas Bonner about North Korean athletes
*
''Crossing the Line'' (2006), their most recent film about
Joe Dresnok, an American who defected to North Korea in 1962
References
External links
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2004 films
British independent films
British sports documentary films
Films set in North Korea
2000s Korean-language films
Documentary films about North Korea
2004 documentary films
Films produced by John Battsek
2004 independent films
2000s English-language films
2000s British films
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