Keeping the Vision Alive (2002)

"Keeping the Vision Alive" is a documentary film featuring Korean women filmmakers, both established and those who worked with director Yim. The film is Yim's tribute to contemporary Korean women filmmakers and the history of women in Korean cinema, presented by a filmmaker of her own generation. Yim avoids offering her own perspective, allowing the filmmakers' voices and images to convey their stories through unobtrusive filming. From pioneering figures like Park Nam-ok and Hwang Hye-mi, who directed "First Experience" in the 1970s, to contemporary filmmakers such as Byun Young-joo and Jang Hee-sun, the film explores their experiences, challenges, concerns, and perspectives as women and filmmakers. "Keeping the Vision Alive" celebrates the perseverance, resistance, and survival of women filmmakers within Korea's conservative film industry and a male-dominated society.