Black Stone

2015

Special Feature

ROH Gyeongtae | 2015 | Fiction | Color | DCP | 93min

SYNOPSIS

This film is a mysterious, poetic, and healing journey of a half-blooded Korean. X got raped by a lieutenant, and became HIV-infected during his military service. He finally murders the officer, and runs away from the army.

DIRECTING INTENTION

Humans pollute the environment in order to develop their civilization, and the polluted environment transmits the pain back to us.
In the materialist capitalism which corruption is getting more problematic, humanity continues to be threatened by mental and physical contamination.
I intend to create a visual poetic on nostalgia for the endangered wildlife, as well as looking upon the primitive socialist ideals found in socialism.
The plot of the film on the superficial level is simply of a road movie about Shon Sun, who is HIV positive, half-blooded Korean, leaving for the tropical village to figure out the disappearance of his father. But the intended narrative of the film is unfolded slowly with symbolic, contemplative and meditative mannered images about pollution and nostalgia rather than projecting an obvious line of a story.
I was strongly influenced by Robert Bresson and Apichatpong Weerasethakul while working on the last piece of the trilogy on environmental pollution.

FESTIVAL & AWARDS

2015 제44회 로테르담영화제
2015 제50회 카를로비바리영화제
2015 제16회 전주국제영화제
2015 제19회 퀴어 리스보아 영화제
2015 제3회 무주산골영화제

DIRECTOR
ROH Gyeongtae

ROH Gyeongtae

he Last Dining Table (2006, 35mm, 91min) 

Land of Scarecrows (2008, 35mm, 93min) 

Black Dove (2011, HD, 113min)

STAFF

Director Gyeong-tae Roh
Producer Gyeong-tae Roh, Antonin Dedet
Screenwriter Gyeong-tae Roh
Cinematography Young sang Cho
Editor Hyun-Sook Choi
Lighting Ji Sung Park
Music Olivier Alary, Cetusss, Jaesin Lee
Art Director Chang-Ju Lim
Cast Tae Hee Won, Hyun-Joo Baek, Hae-Sung Lee