Korean Competition

A Chronicle in Spirals

KIM Yiso
Korea 2023 82min DCP Color/B&W Fiction GWorld Premiere

Schedule

MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 3

Date

2024. 05. 02

Time

13:30

Code

128
K
E
G
GV
MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 3

Date

2024. 05. 06

Time

20:30

Code

570
K
E
G
GV
CGV Jeonjugosa 6

Date

2024. 05. 08

Time

14:00

Code

714
K
E
G

Overview

After falling for an apartment scam, Ungbi sleeps more in the mornings. The landlord evicts Eunbin's theatre troupe. The demolition is scheduled for tomorrow. Two stories echo back to each other without fully sticking together. This film is an incomplete memory of the witness, a diary written on the traces of the past.

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Review

The world has become more developed and affluent but why do we look injured? This film does not propose a dystopia or show the destruction of humanity. Rather, even when showing frustrating aspects of history, the director tries to embrace humans with warm energy. However, when the characters quietly try to protect their lives, the surrounding environment breaks down and becomes ruins. Based on the exploration of self-preservation and social coexistence, the film has a narrative that materializes invisible senses in the form of experiences such as sound, scientific experiments, photography, and performance. The film questions what art really is and expresses opinions about different types of beauty. It seems to be saying that all the small, beautiful moments of human life can become art, and therefore beauty is a good acquired through the cultivation of moral emotions. It shows that it is each individual who is responsible for the dark side of a society run by development and political calculations and that the only hope for that society is goodwill toward someone and the love and solidarity shown by individuals—the will for good. (Sung MOON)

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Credit

  • DirectorKIM Yiso
  • ProducerKIM Yiso, LEE Harim
  • ScreenplayKIM Yiso
  • CinematographyYI Jaejin
  • GafferYi Jaejin
  • Production DesignKIM Yiso
  • MusicJEON Seunghwan
  • EditorKIM Yiso
  • SoundJEON Seunghwan
  • CastSON Ungbi, JEON Hyeyeon, HAN Chowon, WOO Jian

Film Source

KIM Yiso⎜chayakimn@gmail.com

Director

KIM Yiso

She is interested in biographies of facts that remain unreported. She tries to transcribe the sense of omission into a cinematic form.