Asking a Way along the Road

2004

Mid length 3

Jong-hwan Oh | 2004 | Documentary | DV | Color | 44min 28sec

SYNOPSIS

At 12:30, the 'Samboilbae' ('Three-Steps-Then-A-Bow' event) started. Along the road of 'Samboilbae' I encountered a new simple way of life. It was the way leading to the lower life. Along the road of repelling three poisons of greed, anger and foolishness, the people I met on it were not different from those of a reduced world. On it, `desire and abandonment` and `abundance and share` had been fiercely struggled to occupy their own places. Along the read of `Samboilbae' I could look into the world again. I also met many friends along the road. Those were the people standing on the road again with gestures to share now the life and peace. They were willing to meet the people and talk with them, through songs and dances. It was an awakening to me. Opening the eyes, the Saemangum Silt, which I looked at, was the grounds of livings meeting on the road of life. Along the road, I asked the people a way.

DIRECTING INTENTION

This film is a recording of the people whom I met along the road. All the people - those whom I met along the road of 'Samboilbae'(Three-Steps-Then-A-Bow), Puan and Chollabuk-do peoples, Mr. Ko Un-shik and the Kyehwa Isle folks, the members of Pyonghwa(Peace) Roaming Group, and others who looked indifferent to the world affairs _ are the `We,` with whom I am destined to live together. There are no `We` if we couldn't recover the respect to life without awakening for ourselves that we are the very life. Because there seem to be no `ways of living,` as long as the mountains are demolished for the constructions of roads, the sea and the silts are filled up and reclaimed like the case of the Saemangum Silt, and the ! Nature is devastated by struggles and war. I wanted to ask the people the way of life. Along the road, I asked the people the way.

FESTIVAL & AWARDS

제6회 서울여성영화제 아시아단편경선 최우수작품상. 관객상
2004 전주국제영화제
2004 부산아시아단편영화제 아시아단편경쟁 동백대상
제3회 미쟝센 단편영화제 사회드라마부문 최우수작품상. 배우연기상.
제4회 광주국제영화제
제6회 정동진 독립영화제
제2회 기독교영화축제
제5회 대구단편영화제
제2회 아시아나국제단편영화제
제5회 대한민국영상대전 대상

DIRECTOR
Jong-hwan Oh

Jong-hwan Oh

2000  <명숙이와 나> (DV, 30분)
2001  <거짓말> (16mm, 9분)
        <기억>    (beta, 27분)
2003  <오디션> (16mm, 17분)
        제5회 정동진 독립영화제
2004  <잘돼가? 무엇이든>
STAFF

Director Jong-hwan Oh
Editor yoonk-yung Park
Recording kang-oh Kim
Music ju-hee Kim