Tom Vick is curator of film for the Freer and Sackler Galleries, the Smithsonian Institution's museums of Asian art, and the author of Asian Cinema: A Field Guide (HarperCollins, 2008). He has contributed articles and essays to many publications, including Film Festival Yearbook 3: Film Festivals and East Asia, World Cinema Directory: Japan, Education About Asia, and Asian Geographic. 
Turn, Turn, Turn: The Seasons of Korean Cinema
“If the technical advancement of cinema now means that nature has been conquered, and most movies take place in a meteorological nowheresville created in a digital effects lab (where the weather is either hyper-real or airlessly unpresent), it strikes me as significant that the weather, the presence of the seasons, persists so strongly in Korean cinema, even as it has grown to rival Hollywood in sophistication, ambition, and technical achievement.”
