Living in New Town

2003

Short 5

HONG Doo hyun | 2003 | Drama | 35mm | Color | 14min 30sec

SYNOPSIS

It's the street of new planned city that is surrounded by rows of apartment buildings everywhere. Ji-Soo is a woman in her early 20s who's on her way home late night. Even though it's rare to find any traffic at this time of the night, it's especially lacking in any form of transportation passing by. As she is about to arrive at the crossing by the hill, she hears a screeching sound of a car stopping suddenly followed by a thumping sound, indicating an obvious traffic accident. When panicking Ji-Soo arrives at the scene of accident, the car is already gone and there lies a kid and a woman about the same age as she is, both covered in blood.

DIRECTING INTENTION

The problems arising out of the norm of a nuclear family in the industrialized modern life are mostly originated from either breaking off of communication or complete absence of it. Therefore,  happy family  is maintained by the selfishness in keeping the family together under any circumstances, inevitably forcing others to sacrifice in the process. My film covers the possibility of the tragic sequences that may result from the lack of communication between the lives within the family structure and outside of it.

FESTIVAL & AWARDS

2003 제2회 광주국제영화제 초청상영
2003 부산아시아단편영화제 경쟁부문

DIRECTOR
HONG Doo hyun

HONG Doo hyun

 

1999 <스타킹> 
2001 <노을소리> 
2003 <신도시인> 

 

STAFF

Director/Screen Writer HONG Doo-hyun
Producer SHIN Hye-yeon
Cinematographer CHOI Young-min
Editor KIM Sun-min
Sound KIM Soo-duk
Cast KIM Tae-hee, HAN Ki-joong