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Nam's essay film "Dancer from the Peninsula" revolves around the archive of legendary Korean dancer Choi Seung-hee (1911-1969), who lived a controversial life of being pro-Japanese during the Japanese colonial era and later defecting to North Korea.
A girl in a school uniform walked into door of empty house. She watched television programs blankly and touched any tools in the kitchen. Nobody could figure out whether it’s her own space or not. There was a splendid night view on the window. She didn’t want to see herself mirrored in the window, just felt like she’d been abandoned. In the room, there were a too big bed and a large mirror, which means the place wasn’t hers...
Living Along the Fenceline tells the stories of 7 remarkable women who live alongside U.S. military bases. They are teachers, organizers and healers, moved by love and respect for people and the land, and hope for the next generation. The film inspires hope and action through the power of ordinary women to resist militarism and create genuine security on their own terms.
A film about a mother and a daughter who each fall into a complicated relationship.
Japan is a close but distant country. The film tells the past and present of Zainichi Koreans and pro-North Korean schools in Japan. Through the close-down order, protests, and withdrawal of the order, the schools remained steady for 70 years. The film doesn't focus only on the past, but calmy depicts the lives of Zainichi Koreans. What is different today compared to 70 years ago?
An old man named Lot is pushing a round barrow, heading toward a desert with his grandson named Aram to collect his son’s body. After getting some help from a black woman he met beside a well, he leaves Aram behind and continues the journey by himself. But Aram follows him. Amidst war, Lot arrives in the town to collect his son’s body. Then, another battle starts and Aram witnesses the death of his father, Moab.
A high stakes game of Go between two national champions becomes dramatized as an exhilarating and skillfully choreographed martial arts brawl.
Chizuru, a female writer specializing in 19 gold novels! While contemplating her new novel, she makes a radical proposal to the Akane couple who lives next door to actually try swapping for a more vivid depiction of swapping. The small deviation that started just for her writing suddenly encroaches on the two of them. Once tasted, an unforgettable and addictive ecstasy begins now.
It’s 2070 and our planet is ravaged by earthquakes and volcanic activity. Nowhere on Earth is hit worse than the Korean peninsula. Ha-jin, a sly, savvy orphan, prowls the rubble of a broken, barely functioning Busan wracked by daily tremors. Her petty crimes land her in jail, and from there the clutches of human traffickers — and finally far out to sea, rescued (or rather, kidnapped?) by a ragtag band of pirates seeking the precious crystals at the heart of a volcanic island. To reach their prize, they’ll need to defeat the island’s fearsome guardian, the legendary volcano whale. And to do that, they’ll need Ha-jin’s special talent for summoning whales. But is her rare power a blessing, or a curse?
Soon-ho works part-time at the Chinese restaurant and goes his first delivery. He fell in love with Yu-jin who came out of the door there. But Yu-jin gets to know that Soon-ho is gay.
1. A stream of water starts from the deep end of the mountain. The afterimage of its surface and the small life forms beneath the water. The static forest and rocks. As we pass this landscape, we enter a long-stretching two-lane road that leads to a memorial park surrounded in silence. 2. A present buried under the past. A future which will be filled with idle hope. A present from a distant past. A present from a future to come. A present in sequence where the past and future endlessly meet. A present surrounded by silence.
It is the film in which evocativeness is dancing, evocativeness probably occuring to anyone all of a sudden.
In the early 1960s, Japan entered a period of high economic growth and enjoyed a booming economy. At the same time, the size of the Japanese Yakuza reached 180,000 with over 5,000 organizations, and 80,000 new people entered each year for 10 years. At that time, the two major mountain ranges of the yakuza and the Hakjeonghoe kept each other in check and fought constantly, and there was always an air of instantaneousness. The Hakjeonghoe united the Kanto region to be wary of the Sananghoe, and at the center of it was Ishita, a loyal and gentle resourceful person unlike other Yakuza. When Ishita successfully led the Kanto Alliance, the government checked the yakuza and banned gambling and spot taxes, which are their main sources of profit, under the name of “normal operation”. I'm trying to start the Tatsumi industry with real estate...
One digs beneath the surface of the other to reach the deepest place of his heart during struggles. It lightens up the darkness. They fulfill one another within the sense of oneness.
Tae-Han is running for a student body president. After a night of heavy drinking session, he's late for the final hearing for the election. During the hearing, he receives a text message; You had a blackout last night, didn't you?
Minwoo is working at the bar and has been interested in the woman who lives on the 3rd floor, watching her walking along the alley at dawn every day. One dawn, Minwoo happens to have a conversation with her about the seasons, he comes to have a curiosity about her, and a good feeling toward her begins to grow. But the very next day, Minwoo is told by the bookstore owner about the rumor that she is a transgender.
The film shows the true energy of life hidden beneath daily activities and captures the offbeat created in the discrepancy between the imagination of someone who hopes to get closer to another person. This offbeat is expressed through dance. In turn, this dance provides a glimpse of the tiny fragments of fantasy ─ deeply embedded in our daily routines ─ finding their way into our life.
Jeong-ah and Sol are the members of the broadcasting department at highschool. But there are rumors that there are lesbians at school. Jeong-ah who is a lesbian gets scared because of the sight of the uneasy society.
There are people who are treated as outcasts, repeatedly dismissed, and pushed to the margins just because they are temporary workers or union members. However, they do not get intimidated. Although capital may pass over their existence and permanent employees ignore them, they heal and overcome their difficulties over and over again. They choose a path with a dream to live as human beings. A story about people who are walking their paths with surefooted steps.
Young actress Lee Seon-hwa visits her relatives living in Vancouver, Canada, over the course of the summer and has numerous brief encounters.
Anything For You 2014 is a Korean Erotic film with an actress came from Japan, Kaho Kasumi, 카스미 카호. Film is a story at a small bar, took care by a group of young boys and girls
On the edge of a world called Kang-ho Moo-rim where people fly and punch through mountains, three clumsy looking warriors gather at the Poong-rim Inn. Hwa-hwa Gong-ja is 'crazy' and loves women more than martial arts, So-so Hal-bae is 'smiley' and has the best poker face while Jeom-ryong Hyeol-gaek is the 'big shot' in the world of gangsters. A legendary military weapon falls in front of them and a battle begins between them to get a hold of it. Who will be the winner?
One peaceful day for the farmers in the summer of 2009, the Korean government announced the master plan for the “4 Major Rivers Project.” The government suddenly announced that organic agriculture severly polluted the water. The 4 Major Rivers Project was a mega-sized national project by the LEE Myungbaek Administration to “renovate” the 4 major rivers in Korea to construct the Korean Peninsula Great Canal. The project constructs 16 dams in the rivers and expropriates farming lands and riverbeds to build bicycle roads and parks. The Paldang “Dumulmeori” organic farming area known as the hub of Korean organic farming was to be included as part of the 4 Rivers Project. This film is about the 40 Months of struggles by organic farmers against the 4 Major Rivers Project.
The weather is so beautiful and shiny today, while Chae-yeon has failed an audition again, Ji-ho has to go to the army next Monday, and You-jeong is quite busy with her term paper and a part-time job. You-jeong notices that her best friend Chae-yeon likes Ji-ho. So she decides to encourage Chae-yeon to confess her love to Ji-ho.
Two couples who have been dating for six years lives' intertwine as they each balance on the precipice of a breakup.
Combined units of colorful blocks. They act like people. However, the color disappears, you feel it differently.
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.
In 2012, the cleaning ladies working at the Korea National University of Arts got organised. Their working conditions are deteriorating, and it is time for them to make their voices heard.
This short film explores meta-themes about film itself, such as the nature of cinematic beginnings, visual storytelling, and the death of traditional film.
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.
SZQ: (Re)Printed is a film that explores deconstructed materials and mental images of 16mm film, bringing the space outside the frame into the space within it. The fragmentation of visual imagery expands the film’s temporal dimension through an abstract collage method that recomposes new cinematic texts. SZQ: (Re)Printed fuses repeated images and sounds through negative-to-positive printing techniques, generating unexpected visuals that rediscover the filmic material as moving, organic forms. These abstract images seem to possess a life of their own, and that life unfolds in tandem with the sound collages.
Soe, Joe, and Tommy came from a land they call ‘Burma.’ They are illegal foreign workers in Korea. Hard work worn them out, but they hold onto their lives with a sole pride; being a breadwinner for the family back home. On the weekends, they comfort themselves with bottles of hard liquors. Soe and Joe are determined to go back home finally after a decade, but Tommy is determined not to go back until he can make a flashy return with good sum of money.
The death of a soldier at Panmunjeom, the symbol of the division of the Korean Peninsula, still stands as an unsolved case. Was it death by suicide (as the official investigation team announced) or was he murdered? What is the truth?
This film is made of footages shot on the rooftop of my friend's house at Kathmandu, Nepal. Lazimpat is a name of the street where the house locates. It's a portrait of people, sunshine, flowers, and etc. (Lee Jang-wook)
Sojung, Mijung and Heejung escape an upsetting cold winter in Seoul and travel to Thailand, hoping to find an endless summer. But things start to get awkward when each of the friends meet their professor in their dreams.
A woman who is a victim of sexual violence comes to a human rights group that is protesting against sexual violence and asks her to report it together. However, no one actively stands up for women.
The insurance salesman I met at the church knows too much about him and her.
Imoha.His situation is not so good. He must dash, otherwise he will be late. Besides, he skipped his breakfast and he is hungry. He runs anyway.
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?
On a bright summer day, two brothers take a walk to Seoul.
A Globe in a Flat World (2016) follows a wanderer’s journey into an Augmented Reality simulation of Deoksu Gung, a traditional palace in Seoul. The interior of this treasured site is permanently closed to the public in real life and only accessible as an awkwardly compressed imagery of three-dimensional experience. Inside the AR space, the aimlessly drifting wanderer becomes bodiless, impeded to take a step. Unable to find a liminal space between corridors and rooms, the wanderer loses autonomy to exit.
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.
On the day of the infamous boss's retirement, the secretary runs away and the position is taken over by a contract employee, Hana. The boss instructs Hana to take care of her daughter, Da-jung.
This is a record of people who face up to the big change.
Modern dancer Seo-yul collapses after the death of her soul mate Min-hyuk who played piano just for her. Seo-yul realizes that she cannot dance without Min-hyuk, so she decides to quit her career. One day, Min-hyuk's piano plays by itself for Seo-yul and she dances delightly again. As time goes, however, piano demands her blood...
Wuzuh, a girl with Down Syndrome, has a secret crush on her teacher. One day she discovers that a hair accessory her teacher gave her as a gift he also gave to another student. Feeling betrayed, Wuzuh brings a chicken she has been raising for her teacher to class, causing chaos.