Reckoning with a Feminist Experimental Film Collective: Khaidu in 1970s South Korea

Combining analyses of films and published and unpublished sources as well as filmmakers’ memories, this article claims a space for the first South Korean women’s film collective, Khaidu, and discusses its contribution to feminist experimental cinema in global film history. By tracing the collective’s objective and its realization, the article concludes that Khaidu articulated previously unheard ideas about cinema and feminism into practice and launched new forms of activism.