Dove

2004

Short 3

Yong-seok Park | 2004 | Documentary | DV | Color | 22min 25sec

SYNOPSIS

‘Dove' is a film about two people confessing their memories of doves. The artist interviews two people without any script and edits their voices as if they are having a conversation. As they acknowledge the memories of doves, they naturally describe images of cities and happenings that they experienced....such as a loneliness in abroad studying, high school teachers, '86 Asian Olympics, a theft, love stories and so on. Doves are no more a symbol of peace but a representation of people wandering around in the city.

DIRECTING INTENTION

‘Pigeons' generally remind us the symbol of peace, but when people talk about their personal experience of them, they often show the opposite image of pigeons. The conversation on pigeons turns out to be a confession of lonely and melancholic state of mind, and describes urban life and personal odd experiences of the speaker's own. That is probably because pigeons are urban birds which are living together with human. Two participating interviewees on this 'Pigeon' project have never met each other. Each interviewee's voice has been edited separately to stereo channels. Each incoherent memory goes on quite irrelevantly, and overlaps at some points talking similar narrative. At these points, interviewees sounds like that they are having a conversation, but they are still doing monologues -like the incomprehensible awry life of human beings. I interviewed to describe a contemporary urban landscape using a pigeon as an intermediary, and furthermore to describe psychological anxiety, loneliness, hope, or nostalgia of urban beings through the landscape.

DIRECTOR
Yong-seok Park

Yong-seok Park

2001 < S씨의 하루 >
        광주비엔날레
        전주국제영화제-디지털비디오다이어리
2002 < 성남기억 >
        광주비엔날레
        코리아에어프랑스
2002 < 화분배달 >
        부산비엔날레
        일주아트하우스 비디오 다큐멘트
        대구문화예술회관 Yong Artist's Network전 상영
2004 < 해님 달님 >
        서울 뉴미디어아트 페스티벌
STAFF

Director Yong-seok Park
Producer Yong-seok Park
Cast Jia Jang, Jewyo Rhil