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JUNG Ji-hyun | 2022 | Fiction | Color | DCP | 20min (E)

SYNOPSIS

During the period of mourning lasting 49 days after her mother’s death, Seon is told that her mother was actually a daughter of a shaman family and will be reborn as her daughter. Seon is doubtful about this story. She wants to prove that her mother’s chronic headache was not due to repudiation of serving Sea God. However, on the 49th day after mother’s death, Seon delivers a daughter and believes the baby is her mother. She disappears into the sea with her baby.

DIRECTING INTENTION

I wanted to express the situation arising from the difference of belief in superstition as immersive rhythm. Through the baby born at the end of the movie, I wanted to say that they face a world different from they believed before, so that their body do not even die but they begin to live new life.

FESTIVAL & AWARDS

2022 Bucheon International Fantastic Film Festival / Watcha’s Pick
2022 Jeonju International Short Film Festival / Grand Prix(Korean Competition), Best Live Action
2022 Gimpo International Youth Film Festival
2022 University Film Festival of Korea

DIRECTOR
JUNG Ji-hyun

JUNG Ji-hyun

2020 Sueng Jo
2020 Scarecrow
2020 Scarecrow VRC

STAFF

Director JUNG Ji-hyun
Screenwriter JUNG Ji-hyun
Producer JUNG Ji-hyun, SIM Su-gyeong
Cinematographer JUNG Tae-wan
Lighting JUNG Tae-wan
Editor JUNG Ji-hyun
Music eobchae
Art Director CHOI Ida, KIM Yoon-zy
Recording/Mixing HA Nam-gyu
DI Lucid Colour
CG JUNG Ji-hyun
Props JUNG Da-sol, KIM Ji-soo
Assistant Director SIM Su-gyeong
Cast KIM Su-ah, SHIM So-young, KIM Min-youp