For Vagina’s Sake
2017
Choice Feature
KIM Boram | 2017 | Documentary | Color | DCP | 73min (K, E)
SYNOPSIS
Women eat, sleep, and bleed. This bleeding has been symbolized as mystery, impurity, and inferiority, but the taboo around menstruation started cracking up. Women all over the world raised their voices and NPR crowned 2015 as the Year of Period. This big wave has arrived in Korea. The walls of information collapse, and women demand their right to choose how to bleed. For Vagina's Sake follows the history of bleeding, which started with the birth of mankind, and the daily lives and social issues happening in modern societies. With colorful animation and fast-paced editing style, it is nicknamed as "Period Wikipedia."
DIRECTING INTENTION
In the fall of 2015, I was talking to aDutch woman whom I met by chance, and there was a debate about whether tampons were good or not. I was shocked at the words of Charlotte that she used tampons since the first days of menstruation, and for the first time I came to think of blood that I blew for 18 years. Unexpected articles poured into Google as I typed the word ‘menstruation’. There was a lot of women's movement to bleed freely from all over the world, and there were sanitary items that I never heard of. I collected articles and ordered menstrual cups, sponge tampons, wool tampons, disposable menstrual cups, menstrual briefs, and more. Every time my period began, I observed my body using different sanitary products. I interviewed women with different experiences and tracked the history of the “blood”. In the process, a new way of looking at my body unexpectedly opened and I finally got to reconcile with my body that I hated for a long time.
FESTIVAL & AWARDS
2017년 제19회 서울국제여성영화제
2017년 제08회 광주여성영화제
DIRECTOR
KIM Boram
2016 <혜화동 풍경>
2016 <녹성에서-씨네21까지, 잡지로 보는 한국 영화사>
2016
STAFF
Director KIM Boram
Producer OH Heejung
Screenwriter KIM Boram
Cinematography KIM Minju
Editor KIM Boram
Music KIM Hae Won
Animation KIM Seunghee