the wailing of 'old ghosts' was not a requiem for sorrowful past but a funeral song for the coming deads in the future.

The screen version of (The Home of Stars) is based on video documentation of an installation work with the same title. It was installed at the former Kimusa (Defense Security Command) site, which was a historical background of the work. The Home of Stars aimed to reflect on historical meaning of the site, while at the same time surmounting visual limitation generated by installation format.

The social landscape that surrounded me during the last one year is, however, works as a déjà vu of propaganda films of 70s and 80s which I researched for The Home of Stars. This déjàvu encompasses the death of Park Jung-hee in 1979 and death of Roh Mu-hyun/Kim Dae-jung three decades later, the fabrication of North Korean spies in the past and revival of anti-Communist ideology through appropriating the issue of sunk millitary vessel, and repeated suppresion of trade unions. Witnessing these aftershocks from the past within our society,
I realize that the wailing of 'old ghosts' was not a requiem for sorrowful past but a funeral song for the coming deads in the future.

2010 제26회 벤쿠버국제영화제
2010 서울국제실험영화페스티벌