Melo

2004

Mid length 3

Eun-hee Kim | 2004 | Fiction | DV | Color | 43min

SYNOPSIS

In an afternoon of summer, only two female customers are in the cafe. One is having a cake, the other is drinking a coffee. A woman staff is taking view the space with boresome. All three women are looking on invisible time with different point of view simultaneously, and a young chap is strolling about the street near the cafe, and then coming back to the building after passing by around the cafe.

DIRECTING INTENTION

is an imagery film which the object of seeing (landscape, character, space with ambiguous direction) is the moment to be assemblage of three different individuals. The space seen same place visually loses the identification in the inside of the image where the characters in the frame cast their gazes to a certain direction. The camera points to the external space not to be seen in the frame. The outer layer of information for being (cafe, things, three women, the outside of cafe, voice, songs, speech) can be attributed to their inner layers in the sense of discontinuity and continuity. Therefore the film is less explicit in suggesting the concrete archtype. The character's gaze, action and voice blow off a certain emotional impression in infra-structure of their existence. Time is the moment of all kind of impression. And the songs by three women are a phase for composing the form of existence rather than indicating the form of language to contemplate the individuals. These songs rousing the common feelings of melo-drama are the element which exposes the limit of imagination on the character, the element arousing the illusion of identification. Very reversely, the film draws those elements into the aspects of alienation. The film is premised with non-existence of characters, and would only function as form of being without people. We also face up to the distorted vision we imagine.

DIRECTOR
Eun-hee Kim

Eun-hee Kim





1984 <휴일> (16mm, 20분)
1985 <평행선> (16mm, 20분)
2003 <사물의 기억>
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STAFF

Director Eun-hee Kim
Producer Sung-kwon Jeon
Assistant Director Yun-young Choi
Cinematographer Dae-sun Kim
Lighting Sung-gak Jo
Sound Ji-won Choi
Mixing Tan-young Kim
Cast Young-hwa Seo, Yeun-hwa Yoem, Jun-hong Min, Eun-hee Kim