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Gravity of the Tea

IM Kwon-taek is a Korean film-maker. He was born in 1934 when his country was under Japanese occupation. When Korean War was over his parents became North Korean partisan, and he ran away from home. He’s made 101 films since he made his debut in 1962 with Farewell Doman River. He tasted the glory at Cannes Int’l Film Festival with Chiwhasun. However making the 102nd film seems harder than ever to this 80-year-old director. His 2 projects have been suspended. He still can’t find chance to make his 102nd film, but spends daily routine free from film-making. This is a recording of years that the film-maker spends without making a film.

Gravity of the Tea

NR 2019
Lost

The image of the city depicted as a point cloud, rendered by scanning the city with a 3D scanner, seems to be packed with particles of dust, an ethereal hallucination in a virtual world. Departing from the boundless universe of data, we set our foot on one narrow street of Seoul. It felt even smaller than a dot. Departing from the boundless universe of data, we set our foot on one narrow street of Seoul. It felt even smaller than a dot. While materializing this street into VR, we hoped to express that even in this minute part of a microscopic city, movement continued unabated. The entity you come across may be a joyful rhythm beating inside your heart, a lonely rhythm standing unaccompanied or a hectic and restless rhythm that always has to be somewhere, anywhere but here. Lost embodies such rhythms. We may seem to be lonely beings that stand in the middle of the city, lost, without any inclination of where to go or how to get to another place.

Lost

NR 2019
LingLing

A storm is coming; the winds are getting strong. The real source of the ominous winds lies with Jina, who finds the strange word 'LingLing' written in her father’s notebook. She suspects he is cheating on her mother, who appears to be bored with life and fills the house with potted plants as if to show for her apathy. The film too is riddled with images of humid air and foul-smelling water, impure and overflowing. The sway of her father’s fishing pole and the flutters in Jina’s skirt seem perilous and unstable. When her anxiety and doubts finally come to a head, the family squarely face the rough downpour brought on by the storm. The director’s talent in boldly translating the characters desires and sensibilities into a narrative with powerful imagery is quite impressive.

LingLing

NR 2019
Last Scene

Gukdo Art Cinema located in Daeyeon-dong, Busan is one of the most representative cinema in Busan for independent films and arthouse films along with Cinematheque Busan (currently moved to Busan Cinema Center) and Art Theater C+C. Gukdo opened in 2004 in Nampo-dong and moved to Daeyeon-dong in 2008 and has been a home for cinephiles in Busan and nearby areas for the last 10 years. The theater closed its operations on January 31st, 2018 after the building owner had refused to renew its contract. The last month of the theater is recorded in the movie Last Scene.

Last Scene

NR 2019
Home

In a world where tall spires fill the sky and unnecessary things are mercilessly discarded, Mogwi, who failed to prove his usefulness and was abandoned by humans as a child, wanders from place to place and ends up staying in a scrapyard. Mogwi, who is wounded, expresses hostility to everyone, but gradually opens up his heart to the robot Rom, who he meets by chance in the scrapyard. Mogwi knows that Rom desperately dreams of returning home, and together they go through hardships and adversities to find Rom's home.

Home

NR 2019
Super Disco

Sultan of the Disco was proclaimed "the first lip sync dance group in Hongdae." Now, they have since become one of the most well-known bands in the Hongdae music scene. The director decided to make a documentary about the band when they were officially invited to the Glastonbury Festival in England in 2014. The director originally expected to record some scenes as he followed the process of the band making their second studio album. However, you never know what the future will bring.

Super Disco

8.0 2019
Hoop It Up

So-eun is a high-school girl living in the countryside. She’s skinny and quite bad at basketball, but she really likes basketball. The problem is that her school doesn’t have enough players for a team, and they’re trying to dismiss the basketball team. So-eun doesn’t have anybody to share her frustration. Then one day, Yu-jin, a washed up movie actress, and Yong-sik, Yu-jin’s fan who also goes to the same school as So-eun, appear in So-eun’s life. Now, So-eun’s time starts to run quite differently from before.

Hoop It Up

5.0 2019
Blood Sakura

A cruel travelogue that takes place in Kokura, the hometown of Japanese mystery novel master Matsumoto Seicho. A cinematographer named Oh Seong Gil is the only survivor from the ‘Highway 32 Taxi Murder’, in which a whole team of filming staff disappeared. He survived thanks to a miracle, and he has been collecting evidence and witnesses to look for the culprit and make a movie out of his materials. Meanwhile, Seong Gil is tipped off by a mysterious woman and heads to Kokura, where she currently lives, right away. Her name is Yoon Seul.

Blood Sakura

NR 2019