Focus on South Korea I: If Memory Serves Me Well

75 minutes

How do we remember, and why? And how is our collective past represented by our collective memory?

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This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2019

Showing in this program

880,000 Won

880,000 Won

  • Il-hyun Kim
  • South Korea, 2009
  • 8 min.

Man No. 1 has no money, so he worries about whether to spend his cash on his monthly living or a date with his girlfriend. An unexpected solution helps him solve his financial problems.

Moving Walkway

Moving Walkway

  • Ju Hyoung Lee / Joo-hyung Lee
  • France / South Korea, 2009
  • 7 min.

A young man, who has just graduated from high school, keeps on walking to avoid getting out of the framework. As he continues to walk, he changes and is faced with different situation. Meanwhile, he finds himself walking to the rhythm of society.

Open

Open

  • Donghee Jung
  • South Korea, 1996
  • 6 min.

A set of matches exists in a place with no personal freedom. One day, all of the matches disappear one by one.

Saturday’s Apartment

Saturday’s Apartment

  • Seungbae Jeon
  • South Korea, 2018
  • 7 min.

"An Apartment house with 5 different family members strugging of noises between the floors....
Could ever there be a peace?"

Sigh of sighs

Sigh of sighs

  • Bo-seong Gim
  • South Korea, 2018
  • 5 min.

"A whale is being neglected and decayed since it has been drifted on the shore of Han River.
Such strange things happened but no one in the city cares, only a dog and birds are around the whale.
These sceneries are a remembrance of the depression which has been hanging over South Korea quite a while."

Subway

Subway

  • Gi-yong Na
  • South Korea, 1995
  • 6 min.

The subway lines are like blood vessels or spider-webs under the heart of a big city and project our images like a blue mirror. There is no human being in the modern urban environment, because there is no tomorrow.

Survival

Survival

  • Yeong-deuk Son
  • South Korea, 1997
  • 5 min.

A grasshopper is flying between the flowers and the grass. A person walks up to it from somewhere. He finds the grasshopper and catches it. He enjoys torturing the grasshopper by burning it with his lighter.

The Life

The Life

  • Jin-ho Ryu / Woong Sung
  • South Korea, 2006
  • 6 min.

Life’s unavoidable ordeal is expressed in this film through an old man. It is represented through his memories.

The River

The River

  • Heeseon Kim
  • South Korea, 2015
  • 8 min.

Two boys become the victims of circumstance at a de-militarized border. They are manipulated by the political powers which leads them to extremes.

The Sleeping Buddha

The Sleeping Buddha

  • Yong-bae Lee
  • South Korea, 1991
  • 5 min.

This is a vivid story of Wa-bull, the lying Buddha, in the Unjusa Temple in Hwa-sun in the Jeollanam-do province.