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The Tree Behind the Zigzag Sign

Parco writes a plea letter for his younger brother Rico, arrested for his role in the 2019 Hong Kong protests. The process stirs memories of Parco’s own 2014 arrest and their emotional distance. Before Rico’s sentence, the brothers share a rare moment of connection and plan to document prison life. Parco moves abroad before Rico’s release. The family sells their home, preparing to emigrate. On a final trip to Japan, Rico briefly experiences freedom, while Parco is wrongly arrested. As the family prepares to leave Hong Kong, Parco reads his letter one last time, confronting questions of fear, freedom, and identity—as a Hongkonger and a brother.

The Tree Behind the Zigzag Sign

NR 2025
To a Waverer

During the Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye administrations, despite the question "Are there still people doing student movements?", there were youths guarding Gwanghwamun Square. Time passes and the director, now in her thirties, seeks out colleagues from that time when those moments began to feel meaningless. What remains for them, and how much has the world they hoped for changed? The film follows moments where past passion and present life intersect, reflecting on memories of activism and what came after.​

To a Waverer

NR 2025
Frankenstein of Korean Education; Founder of Suneung

Park Do-soon, the founder of Suneung(South Korea's College Scholastic Ability Test), had failed in his own university entrance exam. His creation—Suneung—would face similar trials. Although designed to put an end to test-oriented education, his new admissions system would be reshaped by external pressures and societal backlash against his intention. Amid the growing controversy, Suneung and the broader admissions reform faced the threat of being scrapped altogether. Ultimately, compromises were made, such as including science and social studies in the test.

Frankenstein of Korean Education; Founder of Suneung

NR 2025
Belonging and Difference

A film produced in collaboration with Beijing-based collaborator Yuan Yuan which interweaves 16mm film and DV video with textual intertitles and fragments of voice-over narration. Merging aspects of visionary cinema, landscape film and home movie, the film combines footage shot in Manhattan Chinatown, Hong Kong, and Beijing into an intimate reflection on the act of physical and spiritual passage between a series of pressurised and rapidly shifting temporalities governed by different myths of order.

Belonging and Difference

NR 2025
ARIA 夢姬

Set in the year 2050, ARIA 夢姬 is a CGI animated speculative short film. In the smart surveillance city of Dream Harbor, a fourth-generation female AI agent named ARIA is on the verge of obsolescence. She is the product of a state-run “Cyber Road Initiative” designed to address labor shortages and declining birth rates. Modeled after a famous late actress, she is the image of “grace and restraint” and domestic femininity. The work references Donna Haraway’s “A Cyborg Manifesto” and ideas of a post-gender future.

ARIA 夢姬

NR 2025
Continuation

A "clock" was one of the imagery materials for the video. The rotating hour and minute hands, ticking away time. I wondered what it would be like to freeze the moving hands and rotate the dial... While creating this piece, I wondered how much time I had left. How many more pieces I could create. How would the scenery change if I stopped something moving? Perhaps this could be a guideline for my next piece. The work's subtitle, "漕続-SOUZOKU-" is a word coined by the artist, meaning "slowly but steadily moving forward".

Continuation

NR 2025
Real Fantasy

Jehoon, a financially struggling director who has been waiting for an opportunity for long years, serendipitously secures a commission from the major conglomerate RF Corporation to shoot a promotional film using AI actors. Unfortunately, on the set, AI malfunctions repeatedly, causing disruptions in the shoot and plunging Jehoon into despair. At this critical moment, Minnam, a celebrity with an appearance identical to the AI actor, visits the set, sparking a hopeful idea in Jehoon's mind. From that point on, the shooting scene gradually takes an unexpected turn... Amidst the chaos of the secretive and scheming shooting location, can Jehoon successfully complete the shoot?

Real Fantasy

NR 2025