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In Search of My Father

In a different generation that holds similarities to this one, our fathers who had dreams and hopes beyond the poverty began their youths suffering from unemployment and struggling to earn money. However, they say those times were like Utopia. They even say they are sorry for not being able to present youths today with the same experiences. They were known as 'work animals' because all they did was work, but they proudly say did that to feel accomplished at the end of the day. It was a world where the working environment was decent. However, once the jobs that they spent their whole youths on disappeared, they reminisced over them in silence. They are trying to return the favor to their families now. This documentary is the confession from our fathers who devoted everything to work.

In Search of My Father

NR 2018
My stepmother is my ex-girlfriend.

One day after coming home from class, Najima hears his father Teruo talking to a woman in the living room. Don't head into the living room thinking you've got a new girl. Teruo introduces his new woman to his son. As soon as they greet each other half-heartedly and make eye contact with their father's woman, they are speechless. Her father's new woman was Rie, a college classmate whom Nazima dated two years ago. She met Teruo, who worked at a bar to earn money after her father died and her mother collapsed. Speaking of which, I recall the old memories of Najima.

My stepmother is my ex-girlfriend.

NR 2018
Dong-hak Peasantry Punk Band

SM, Young, and Moong Chi are members of Dong Hak Peasantry Punk Band. They´re not happy with their arbitrary leader Ronda. Though they set out to create Korean punk in the spirit of the Dong Hak Revolution, they’re too burdened by life and work. The film presents an unlikely combination of a punk band and a countryside village. The punk spirit that opposes the system and old customs gives them a reason to go on. This comedy of losers shows how they despair but rise again even in the cold light of reality.

Dong-hak Peasantry Punk Band

NR 2018
Hikikomoru

Even small stimulation becomes big wave to creative person. Mi-jung, alone in her space, she cuts and glues plastic bottle. Her daily life is chorological and limited. She has hidden herself from something. Perfectionist Mi-jung, the reason why she has hidden herself is because of relationship that were so precious to her, and dreams that she wanted to achieve badly. However, those small stimulation reminds of everything that she ran away from. Memories and imaginations all mixed inside of her haunts her but it motivates her to create.

Hikikomoru

NR 2018
ephemeras

The video features various images of Kolomna along with fragments of texts in English and Russian. The Russian-English and English-Russian texts are a record of translations done in Google Translate during actual conversations. They represent the speakers' awareness of the possible failure of language as well as their mutual efforts to communicate with each other. The audio is the artist copying the text of Moscow-Petushki by Benedict Erofeev, making reference to the history and culture of the city, Kolomna. ephemeras addresses both the physicality and ephemerality of the act of speaking and writing.

ephemeras

NR 2018
When Old Drum Rings

One day, Kwang-soo, who followed his late mother's footsteps, promises to travel with his friend Seung-hwan. However, he finds an application for Taejong's father's admission to an AIDS clinic, and his father orders him to visit his mother's grave together for the last time. Kwang-soo breaks his promise with Seung-hwan and follows his father. Kwang-soo, who was shouting in front of the oxygen, sees his mother's fantasy and feels that he was not a vocalist but an onlooker. Realizing that he was in love with a Buddhist monk, Kwang-soo leaves his sick father behind him and goes to Seung-hwan late into the night and tells him to go on a 'tomorrow' train trip.

When Old Drum Rings

NR 2018
A Long Farewell

Dunchon Jugong Apts. at the edge of the metropolis, Seoul. It has been over 10 years since discussions of rebuilding these old apartment complexes began. The inhabitants tell us about their soon-to-be-demolished houses and apartments. Some of them have spent long spans of time here and some of them short. Some people are now raising daughters in the house they lived in since their childhood, some families came from other places and struggled to adjust. Each add their different forms of love to this space in their own way. As the long-postponed reconstruction nears reality, the day-to-day scenery of the apartment complexes and households is quietly coming to a close.

A Long Farewell

NR 2018
Seon-a

Second-year Sun-ah makes the wrong choice when she wants to beat the first-ever child. It's about taking the midterm exam papers and answer sheets from your computer. Seon-a secretly looks for password hacking methods at home, goes to school early in the morning, and succeeds in extracting the test paper and answer sheet. Sun-ah receives all the praises from her mother as planned. But Sun's mood is depressed. Late at night, Sun-a has a nightmare and falls asleep, feeling guilty.

Seon-a

7.0 2018
Fragment

"This is a scenario written based on a true story that was actually experienced. ill-advised at school I remember the precious people leaving me because of my judgment. At that time, I expressed myself as "Yoo Jin Hyuk" and those who had left as "Ha Yoon Woo," and as a medium of conflict, I described myself as "Lee Ki Tae." Everyone makes small mistakes because they are human. I want to send a message to everyone who has seen the movie that the mistake can make as big a thing as the Butterfly Effect, to be alert again with this work from my experience." -Yong Hyun

Fragment

NR 2018
Taste of mom's friend

Dong-jun, who lives with his mother Si-yeon. His mother's friend, Yu-min, who visited often when he was young, comes to the house. After her divorce, she lives with her, who has nowhere to go. Dong-jun, who feels the young Yoo-min he saw as a child, as a woman, and Yoo-min, who doesn't think of his nephew, Dong-jun, as a man. Yu-min shows off her underwear without hesitation, and Dong-joon, who was hurt by such a figure, finally confesses to Yu-min seriously... Yu-min just laughs at how cute he is. Si-yeon brings her lover into her house to remarry. Yu-min, who is heated by the love between the two, remembers Dong-joon, who had no idea what to do with his lewd appearance, and seduces him…

Taste of mom's friend

NR 2018
Will Not Change

2013, as a freshmen, I tried running away from the artistic military discipline. 2015, in my sophomore year, I confronted with Sewol Ferry disaster and the pain of others, behind the screen. 2016 in my junior year, I survived from the misogynic survival. 2017, at the final year of college I fought and won against my case of retributive defamation. is a public question and a private record of mundane discrimination and misogynic oppression that a woman in her 20s has experienced living in hell-like Korea.

Will Not Change

NR 2018