Focus on South Korea II: Sensory Overload

75 minutes
Focus on South Korea II: Sensory Overload

A program about five of our most perceptive friends: the senses. These shorts tell stories about living with vertigo on the 23d floor, observing a UFO, and even experiencing death.

This program screened as part of Kaboom Animation Festival 2019

Showing in this program

Ashes in the Thicket

Ashes in the Thicket

  • Sung-gang Lee
  • South Korea, 1998
  • 15 min.

The protagonist accidentally observes a U.F.O. and suffers from a hallucination in which his body gets torn to pieces by a strange power. His delusion becomes serious, and finally he and his lover commit suicide so as to escape it. After death, however, they find themselves in a strange land where half-bodies of others are wandering.

Ballad of Life and Death

Ballad of Life and Death

  • Ho-won Nah
  • South Korea, 1999
  • 3 min.

The shape of an unrolled scroll becomes the disheveled hair of the husband. The hair becomes a wave, the wave becomes a cloud which is the wave in the sky. Life and death, reality and illusion, and public and private coexist while being mixed with each other.

City

City

  • Ye-young Kim / Young-geun Kim
  • South Korea, 2010
  • 6 min.

People get together to constitute a city. Seoul is a city full of people. Let's imagine the city free from walls and frames between people. and relieved of its shell.

Noodle Fish

Noodle Fish

  • Jinman Kim
  • South Korea, 2012
  • 10 min.

Noodle Fish is a pin-screen animation made with plain noodles. The tadpoles say to the Noodle Fish, “To be a grown-up, you’ve got to get out of the water.” The Noodle Fish begins his journey toward the world outside the water.

The Sense of Space for Urban People

The Sense of Space for Urban People

  • Joon Kim
  • South Korea, 2007
  • 6 min.

I live on the 23rd floor of my apartment building. It's so high that I feel dizzy whenever I lie down in bed to sleep. I think of the 22 rooms that are under my feet and the thousands of rooms for others in Seoul.

The Things She Can’t Avoid in the City

The Things She Can’t Avoid in the City

  • Jee-youn Park
  • South Korea, 2008
  • 12 min.

A woman finds a very cheap house in the city, but her house is lifted into the air by a huge crane due to a new city plan.

Where Is My Moon?

Where Is My Moon?

  • Mi-young Baek
  • South Korea, 2017
  • 6 min.

When a sleepless boy encounters a fish that wakes people from their slumber, the boy's moon goes missing. He and the fish set out on a journey to find the missing moon.