A couple is set in their monotonous life until the husband has a homosexual affair with a young male prostitute. Suspicious of her husband, the wife seeks the truth and eventually ends up in bed with the same young man. Their desire has a new meaning.
A journey to find the beauty of the body I wrote my question about aesthetics. Pretending to be great, Why is Idea hiding in shabby? Pretending to exist separately, Why is beauty parasitic to pain? Is there no ldea of beauty? Why does it only appear like this? Why.
Deep in the mountains, a gold-rayed lily (Sannari) is in bloom in front of a dark cave. The red lily looks hideous in the middle of deep greens. It beckons to people to come over and see it so as to learn about peace. Sannari tells you to ‘look aside, not far from you,’ ‘look at the half of...
Woo-kyeong is a masseuse. His life unfolds on the screen, which is neither to compassion nor peculiarity. He drinks coffee, cooks, makes phone calls, reads books, walks, massages, travels, and views the landscape.
The main character cherishes a crude sea taken with a smartphone. Like an object as an object of fetishism... The sea was the place where I broke up with my lover. That's why the meaning of private secret springs up. He puts the sea on his laptop and looks at it all day. He mistakenly thinks that...
In One Fine Spring Day, a Korean melodrama, it wasn't the handsome main characters' love that remained most vividly in my memory, but the scene in which the main male character was recording Jeongsun Arirang, sung by an old couple in a mountainous village. At that time whilst seeing the movie, I...
Poet Jae-ho no longer can write poetry in reality so he belatedly registered on the cyber world. There, he meets Ju-yeon whom Jae-ho knew before but has not thought of for 15 years. Jae-ho came to the cyber world with high hopes but is having a hard time adjusting. Ju-yeon teaches him the laws,...
On April 28, 1986, two students, twenty-year-old Kim Se-jin and Lee Jae-ho, immolated themselves to death, shouting slogans, “No war, no nuclear weapons, Yankee go home,” “U.S. sign the peace treaty with North Korea,” and “Expel American imperialists.” This took place in the midst of a...
In 2022, Jean-Marie Straub passed away, reuniting with her creative partner and lover, Danièle Huillet, who had died in 2006. Inspired by their films, I embarked on a climb up a hill near my neighborhood. Though it's a trail I walk daily, it somehow echoes the spaces in their works. While this act...
Two Japanese women, who have lived in Korea with a difference of a half century, go to Japan. They are Yoko in Kawashima Watkins’ [So Far from the Bamboo Grove] and Masako living in Korea after the marriage with a Korean. The audience will follow their journey through the views of the two women.
There's a man aged 93 years. He was born in the "City in the water" and lived there all his 90-plus years. You can see him always sitting under the zelkova tree beside the lake. However, he doesn't look at the beautiful lake. Instead, he looks the opposite side, where hills, walls and roads are....
