When the French filmmaker Marie Voignier visited North Korea, she discovered that the government-run tours all but lead visitors by the hand to important national sites, where guides force them to absorb verbal propaganda. In International Tourism, her video project based on her tour now showing in “North Korean Perspectives,” a new exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Voignier eliminated sound to silence what could be construed as lies. With title cards inserted into the video, she translates only the facts from the guides while filtering out embellishments.
“North Korean Perspectives” runs through 10/4 at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, 600 S. Michigan, 312-663-5554, mocp.org. Free.
