Military Tango

2003

Short 5

HWANG Jong won | 2003 | Drama | Beta | B&W | 17min 40sec

SYNOPSIS

Sexy man is an effeminate who's constantly teased. Bully is a masculine fighter who's grown up in a slum. One day in 1991, Bully starts to learn tango dancing from Sexy man and they become close in the process. rescues However, as Bully proposes a date to Sexy man, their relationship turns complicated. The story is set in a high school military drill and focuses on the ironic reversal of these two characters identities

DIRECTING INTENTION

I'd been drafted by the reserve army last summer. There, I was captured by a grotesque imagination. "Look at these guys. They wear the same uniforms and grapple with each other without realizing this is a serious skin contact. Isnt it a gay camp?". This was my starting point: let's twist Korean military culture. The result is a black comedy shot with Digi Beta. Here, tango dancing is a medium to turn masculinity into homosexuality, belligerence into love, and grappling into dancing.

FESTIVAL & AWARDS

2003 레스페스트
2003 인디포럼

DIRECTOR
HWANG Jong won

HWANG Jong won

2001 <댄싱, 카프카!>

STAFF

Director/Screen Writer HWANG Jong-won
Cinematographer CHOI Chan-min
Editor PARK Sang-gun
Lighting KIM Ji-hoon
Music LEE Yong-bum
Art Director YU Kil-won
Cast KIM Jun-bae, ZU Ho, SHIN Sam-bong