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The Truth of Gyeongju

Hot summer days are passing by. Postgraduate student, Gyeong-ju, will not be able to get the degree when the semester ends. Consequently, she might be fired from her part-time job which requires her to graduate. For Gyeong-ju, who shoots only character-based, non-mainstream films with slow rhythm, the professor and the people around her suggest shooting a popular, commercial, mainstream film. However, she finds it difficult to write such a story. In the meantime, Gyeong-ju gets to read a scenario of her student, Ye-Bin, at her request. It is a scenario that suits the criteria of popular, mainstream films, and Gyeong-ju feels tempted.

The Truth of Gyeongju

NR 2019
Invisible Actors

Four actors rehearse the role of zombies. These women, who have blurred the acts of acting and life, are creating documentary theater on the theme of the "nation and the individual," peeling away their consciousness. They include in their work the real world in which it is set, their identities as female actors and working people, debates about their labor being exploited, and even them acting out their daily lives—all at the same time that the director is making a film with them. How are the play and the film realized at the end?

Invisible Actors

NR 2019
Cheonggyecheon Medly: A Dream of Iron

"The Cheonggye stream runs through the center of Seoul. Today a popular urban recreation area with clear water, promenades and leafy plants, the Cheonggyecheon was, until only eight years ago, a filthy rivulet under a busy freeway. In the years following the Japanese occupation and during the Korean War, part of the area around the stream was taken over by merchants who made use of the military war scrap, thus helping to lay the foundations for the country’s economic recovery. With the renaturalization of the stream, the neighborhood is now threatened by gentrification.

Cheonggyecheon Medly: A Dream of Iron

NR 2019
To the North for Nonexistence

The Sámi people are the land of accumulation of time and the indigenous peoples of the polar regions of Northern Europe, which have been geographically isolated for a long time due to severe weather conditions. Nowadays, the traditional way of life of the Sámi people living in minority groups and their own identity inevitably arouse conflict with modern systems. To Anita Gimvall who is a Sámi tribe who has lived a lifetime in Lapland, it shows a cross-section of the recent arson incident in a traditional house. To the North for Nonexistence traces out a conflict and alienation at the ambiguous border between past tradition and modern life, settlement and deportation, thought and sharing, and stories of blurred boundaries and backgrounds inside and outside.

To the North for Nonexistence

NR 2019
A Father's Quartet

Do Ha, a father, was once the guitarist and main vocalist of the quartet 'A Father's Quartet'. However, due to an unexpected accident, his beloved wife left earlier, leaving her only family, Chae Rin, and himself. Due to the past accident, the father's health deteriorates due to alcohol, cigarettes, and depression. The daughter can only watch her father and feels pathetic, acts very cynical to her father and hurts him like a dagger with stories when one day he loses consciousness. The daughter gets a call that her father collapsed and runs to the hospital but arrives at a strange place. It's right inside her father's body! There, she meets her father's organs and finds out why her father had no choice but to get sick.

A Father's Quartet

NR 2019
Petrogenesis, Petra Genetrix

Ayoung Kim’s enchanting film Petrogenesis, Petra Genetrix (2019) takes the viewer on a journey through hyperbolic mythology based on a fictional genderless mineral Petra Genetrix. Through this character, Kim explores the Mongolian animist belief that positions land, mother rock, stones, and sacred caves at the center of their universe. By likening rocks and stones as the Earth’s memory storage vessel, the work illuminates the futurist potential of animism: “Quartz can be considered to be a type of natural computer since it absorbs and stores a large amount of energy“. The traditional spirituality oriented towards land or ancient animism reveals the potential equivalence between primeval objects and the futuristic memory sphere.

Petrogenesis, Petra Genetrix

NR 2019
Nori, the beginning of Nori Park

The final showdown between Nori to protect Power V from the villain's grip and the villain Vegas to target Nori Park begins! Steel Roller Coaster Vegas uses a ruse to defeat Nori Park's hero Dragon Rider and take over Nori Park. However, after being defeated by Nori, who returned with his friends, and being deprived of Power V, he is kicked out to Vega Land ... Vegas, the villain who is still aiming for Hoshitamtam Nori Park. Vegas, who always suffers from defeat, realizes that the Power V, which has been stolen by Nori, was the source of her powerful power in a dream one day ... The final showdown in Vegas, who will taste the victory?

Nori, the beginning of Nori Park

NR 2019