JEONJU Intl. Film Festival

Korean Cinema

THE WAVES, THE SAND, AND TWO LOVERS IN THE MIDDLE OF...

HONG Jiyeong

Korea 2023 87min DCP Color/B&W Fiction 15World Premiere

Schedule

Code	Date	Time	Theater	Info	Ticket
128	2023. 04. 28	13:00	MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 1	KE15GV	Ticket Wish
335	2023. 04. 30	13:30	MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 6	KE15GV	Ticket Wish
538	2023. 05. 02	21:00	CGV Jeonjugosa 4	KE15	Ticket Wish
728	2023. 05. 04	16:00	MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 3	KE15	Ticket Wish

Overview

The sound of waves echoes in the silence. Yeong-jin and Jae-yeon go to the beach to sleep together.

Review

Director HONG Jiyeong, who presented an experimental queer film, Blessedness: Monsters and Specters, at the 21st JEONJU IFF, has returned with another experimental film called THE WAVES, THE SAND, AND TWO LOVERS IN THE MIDDLE OF..... While the previous movie was closer to a feature film, this one takes on a more documentary style, presenting a macroscopic framework through dry narration and subtitles. Instead of focusing on the emotions of the two women in love, Yeong-jin and Jae-yeon, viewers are encouraged to follow their relationship within the framework. The rough images, filtered through a telephoto lens, reveal the lonely and forlorn love between the monster and the witch, who are ostracized and threatened by mainstream society. The film also brings back Adrienne Rich, an American human rights activist and lesbian poet who sought true solidarity through women’s language. This political film argues for the ‘brilliant failure’ of the LGBTQ+ community and women. (MOON Seok)

CREDIT

DirectorHONG Jiyeong
ProducerSHIN Hyojin
ScreenplayHONG Jiyeong
CinematographyBAE Kkotnarae
GafferBAE Kkotnarae

Production DesignLEE Jeewon
Musicmorceau j. WOO
EditorHONG Jiyeong
SoundYOO Euijung

CastHAN Hyeji, BAE Sunhee

FILM SOURCE

HONG Jiyeong ㅣ ouiouilecinema@gmail.com

DIRECTOR

HONG Jiyeong

Born in 1985. She directed six films including Blessedness: Monsters and Specters (2020). Amor, Amor Fati (2016) won the Best Cinematography at the Chungmuro Short FF 2016.

⚠nationalism🏳️‍🌈LGBTQ👩woman💘love/dating/romance📢social criticism🗯️politics/resistance