The funeral of the deceased
2019
New Choice Shrots 2
HONG Seok Young | 2019 | Documentary | Color+B/W | DCP | 32min 19sec (K,E)
SYNOPSIS
Do-yi prepares a funeral for Min-young. The exhibition in the form of a funeral was held, to send away the "sexual violence victim Min-young,” and to live again as “Do-yi.” In turns, lawyers, detectives and professors talk about the notion, “victim-likeness”, of which could be regarded as a superstition of this society. Eventually, Do-yi, three of the interviewees, people at the exhibition, and those watching the documentary, come to complete another video exhibition, “The funeral of the deceased”, with the question, “Are we mere spectators to sexual violence survivors?”
DIRECTING INTENTION
At the exhibition of Seo Do-yi, “The funeral of the deceased”, the exhibits enable us to confront directly, the feelings of sexual violence survivors. She surfaces the victims, likely to have been taking shelter in another world, in the form of "another human life.” Lawyers, detectives and professors give their opinions in turn, on the notion of "victim-likeness", which obliges victims to live in depression. In between the four women’s "conversation”, visitors at the exhibition appear on image. By means of such image, the work questions whether we are confined or not to look at the survivors merely as distant "spectators". Consequently, the interviewees and the visitors come to create another video exhibition or documentary. At the end, with the phrase, "To all, from dead Min-young”, the film sends out a message to the audience of the documentary, to join the video exhibition.
FESTIVAL & AWARDS
2019 제21회 서울국제여성영화제
DIRECTOR

HONG Seok Young
STAFF
Director HONG Seok-young
Producer HONG Seok-young, BAE Ji-hyeon
Plan Maker HONG Seok-young, BAE Ji-hyeon
Cinematographer HONG Seok-young, BAE Ji-hyeon
Editor HONG Seok-young
Lighting BAE Ji-hyeon
Music BAE Ji-hyeon
Cast SEO Do-yi, KWON KIM Hyeon-young, LEE Eun-ui, PARK Ha-yeon