Where He Lives

2018

New Choice Shrots 2

YI Sang-il | 2018 | Fiction | Color | MOV | 39min 13sec

SYNOPSIS

Myungshin is looking outside through the window with a voice recorder in front of her. In the next building, a six-seven year old girl is taking a piano lesson. Myungshin is thinking about her piano teacher, Junguk. Just by looking at the voice recorder he gave her as a gift before her college entrance, she feels that he is like playing piano to her; something that she couldn't give up even though she has no talent in it. She is packing to move as she has ignored his calls for many days, but the particles of voice records in her recording machine, which she always carries around, come back as a memory that troubles her. She sees Junguk's car over the window, and the door bell rings. She stays silent, thinking he would turn away if she doesn't open the door, but she hears the sound of keys coming out from his pocket. She is startled and runs to the door.

DIRECTING INTENTION

Memory is stimulated by some clues rather than being stored. Sporadic emersion of the memory particles form a balance of disorder, and creates an emotion. Totally unrelated memories can combine to form a meaning, a story, a suffering, and joy. This is similar to the way how some ordinary movies produce epic moments and move forward in the storyline. Multiple scenes with different situations and meanings combine together to form a unified emotion within the time. In this sense, Myungshin's voice recorder is not just an object given by someone, but it is a clue of memory or a piece of film. The clue of time stacks up on the space. Sometimes, the record of time shows more than the face or the words of a character. It is a challenging task to show all the story of the space in this short movie, but the remaining emotions can be inferred.

FESTIVAL & AWARDS

World Premiere

DIRECTOR
YI Sang-il

YI Sang-il

STAFF

Director YI Sang-il
Producer YI Sang-il
Screenwriter YI Sang-il
Cinematographer LEE Kun-sol
Editor UHM Yoon-ju, YI Sang-il
Recording LEE Kyu-ho, SHIN Hae-in
Art Director YI Sang-il
Mixing STUDIO in Bloom
2D&3D Graphic YI Sang-il
Calibration LEE Kun-sol
Cast PARK Ju-hee, LEE Jong-mu