MotherGone

2017

New Choice Shrots 2

PARK Misun | 2016 | Fiction | Color | MOV | 33min 28sec

SYNOPSIS

Hyunjeong knows her mother in law has dementia but she doesn’t tell her husband about it. Yeaji is surprised to see that her mother, Hyunjeong smokes but can’t talk about it to anyone. While Hyunjeong get practices of theatre play, Yeaji takes Hyunjeong’s cigarettes to show to her friend but the institute’s teacher caught them. Yeaji’s father, Youngnam who thinks theses cigarettes belong to her daughter scolds her. And Hyunjeong can't be brave enough to tell Youngnam that those actually belong to her. Yeaji being very upset and frustrated go to her grandma’s home but instead of telling her what happened earlier she pops some curious question that grandma doesn’t exactly answer. Yeaji feels helpless about all these unexpected situations, and her grandma suddenly disappears.

DIRECTING INTENTION

I wanted look into women’s life in a Korean family. And I wanted give them back their own names instead of “Mother”.

FESTIVAL & AWARDS

World Premiere

DIRECTOR
PARK Misun

PARK Misun

2012 <버스>
2013 <지구 한 바퀴>
2014

STAFF

Director PARK Misun
Assistant Director PARK Nana
Screenwriter PARK Misun
Cinematography YOON Jaesang
Editor PARK Misun
Music YOON Joseph
Sound Studio inBloom
Cast KIM Suyeong, KIM Yeongseon, OH Changkyung, KIM Yujin