Taxi Blues

2005

Independent Documentary

Dong-ha Choiha | 2005 | Documentary | DV | Color | 105min

SYNOPSIS

In Seoul, there are 70 thousand taxies including 20 thousand corporate taxies and 40 thousand private taxies threading across the city. In most cases, a taxi driver works 12 hour shifts and must fulfill 20 to 30 trips a day in order to take small winnings after paying up 80 to 100 dollar due. The taxi drivers go every nook and corner of the city with a variety of passengers in their side or the back seat. In the summer of the year, I became a taxi driver driving one of the 70 thousand taxies of Seoul…

DIRECTING INTENTION

is close to ‘Seoul’ and ‘the Apocalypse’ rather than ‘taxi’ and ‘blues’. Seoul is covered with numerous symbols and vagueness, reminiscent of the phrases of the Revelation, as we look through the eyes of the taxi driver, the observer. It seems the end of the Gotham city is not far away. Many taxi passengers actually said “the end of the world” and “hopeless”, and they would be happy if the world had been “overthrown”. The film is to show the passenger’s subordinated daily lives in the cityscapes.

FESTIVAL & AWARDS

2005 제10회 부산국제영화제
제2회 CJ 아시아 인디 영화제

DIRECTOR
Dong-ha Choiha

Dong-ha Choiha

1996 <실연에 관한 짧은 필름> 
1999 <민들레>
2001 <애국자 게임>
2003 <높은 언덕>

STAFF

Director Dong-ha Choiha
Production Redsnowman
Producer Il-kwon Kim
Cinematographer Bhan Choe
Editor Dong-ha Choiha
Assistant Director Myoung-hui Lee
Sound Sung-hwan Jung
2nd Cinematographer Ha-rin Kim