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A House in a House, in a House

What if the most inconvenient things were uncovered? I consider myself useless whenever I see the traces of my loathful father on me. The house of my home is not a space for rest, but one for sense of guilt. In there, I put myself into the swamp of self-hatred. The hatred for my father grows bigger when the object of my hatred is directed back to myself. Why should I struggle so hard to be understood by my father, the most useless existence to my understanding? Can I ever run away from myself who finds me through my father?

A House in a House, in a House

NR 2017
Young mother-in-law

Junmo, who worked as a novelist. Jun-mo, who usually has good eyesight, goes to the hospital and receives an unbelievable diagnosis. Keratoconus is a disease that progresses rapidly and sooner or later you will lose your sight. Then, he receives a sudden proposal from his girlfriend, who hides his illness and accepts the proposal for fear that his love with her will be broken. Her mother-in-law proposes to live with her in the name of watching over Joon-mo, and she ends up living with a young mother-in-law who lost her husband early. The young mother-in-law likes the sincere Jun-mo more and more. Meanwhile, Hyuna is shaken by the confession of her talented boss...

Young mother-in-law

NR 2017
Boys and Bows

At a humble middle school in the countryside of South Korea, a youth archery team tries to excel in the inter-school championship. Although archery remains an unpopular sport in the country, in the school system the hobby is associated with a certain prestige, and each school strives to be the best in the championship. But things are not easy for these small competitors, as their school is one of the most humble in the circuit. If they want to win, they will have to give more than 100% of their effort.

Boys and Bows

NR 2017
Ecology in Concrete

I wanted to document various stories around apartment buildings from the first-generation urbanologist of Seoul and also from the apartment generation who was born and raised in apartments. They have cozy memories, upcoming anxieties and inconvenient experiences in their apartments, and in addition, they have witnessed the street trees growing up all the while. I was sad to hear that the residents do not garden trees because they want to start to rebuild as soon as possible.Therefore, the life circulation of an apartment building in Korea is only 30 to 40 years.

Ecology in Concrete

NR 2017
The Whispering Trees

A documentary about 90-year-old KIM Mal-hae who never gives up on life even on the threshold of death. This film depicts tragic moments in Korean society starting with the National Bodo League Massacre and the more recent struggle against the building of transmission towers in Miryang, revealing the sometimes silent and sometimes defiant personal struggle of one elderly woman. “If only I could read, then my life would have a beginning and end” is the start of what will be Mal-hae’s first and last confession.

The Whispering Trees

NR 2017
Starry Starry

Starry Starry integrates various audiovisual material about the universe—such as Morse code, VHS glitch and footage of Apollo 13’s reentry of the Earth’s atmosphere—to create an odd hypnotic effect. The noticeable technique here is “looping.” Bizarre phrases that are like instructions at a meditation center (e.i. “The eye sees the nose/The nose sees the mouth/The mouth sees the navel”) are continuously repeated, starting over when it says “again.” The image displayed with the narration is Object Discovery (2016), a video of water drops on a running car’s window. What responds to the word “again” is not just the narration––a water drop that was running leftward starts to run rightward signaled by the word “again.” This reversed cycle is applied to the whole structure of this video.

Starry Starry

NR 2017
This is what I bought for my best friend!

On the one hand, the director (Hyun-woo, 35), who wants anyone to be able to master the four main characters, asks his senior actor, Soo-hyun, for help. However, Soo-hyeon, who did not fully understand the script, tries to refuse the filming because it is difficult, but the director is reckless. When he sees the director kneeling down to his knees and playing the town, Soo-hyeon, who is weak at heart, proceeds to film. After twists and turns and twists and turns, Soo-hyeon enters the forest of four weeks, one step at a time...

This is what I bought for my best friend!

NR 2017
25-dollar Sisyphus: The Story of Himalayan Porters

The village under the Himalaya, Lukla. From here, you can only climb the Himalayas with your own two feet. Many tourists come here to admire the beautiful scenery of nature. It is a beautiful path with romantic memories for the tourists. But for some people, the same path could be somewhere with a burden of life, carrying heavy loads for someone else. Nepalese porters climb the Himalayas wit)h the heavy loads of the tourists. The amount of the loads is more than the one that the porters might not even use all to their grave. Thirteen-year-old Sonam also climbs the Himalayas instead of going to school because of the difficult family situation.

25-dollar Sisyphus: The Story of Himalayan Porters

NR 2017