Hongseok from Taejinsa textile factory and Youngsun from Sunhong supermarket spend their day roaming about in the neighborhood. From Taejinsa, past the barber shop and textile factory to the 600-year-old maidenhair tree, they hop over empty houses on the hill that have been inhabited at one point. All the places in this neighborhood are their playground and life's temporal-space at the same time, ranging from the corner from which trains can be seen, the intersection between the hanok area, Western-style house area, and the apartment complex, and the stairway where dead bodies were stacked during the Korean War to the clothes line on Youngsun's rooftop. In their journey on Cheongpa Hill, a neighborhood sentenced to death in the name of urban redevelopment, Youngsun, Hongseok, and traces of life glimmer. Drawing from poet Choi Seung-ja's Do You Remember Cheongpa-dong, Youngsun and Hongseok sing in bodily gestures to the city light down the hill.
And now, like worn-out shoes without an owner / When I wander aimlessly in the field / Do you remember Cheongpa-dong // The winter from a few centuries ago / When we lay ourselves on top of each other like flower petals / Drifting away in the snow-clad dream, -excerpt from Do you Remember Cheongpa-dong (1981)

8th dance film in Poong Jung.Gak (風精.刻) series presents a landscape of Cheongpa(靑坡)-dong, or "blue hill" neighborhood. Located on the hill from which one could get an entire view of Seoul Station-the destination and the departure point of the City of Seoul, this neighborhood is left with the traces of Jeoksangaok, or former Japanese villages during the colonial era, the 600-year-old maidenhair tree, and the 42 steps of a stairway built during the Korean War, all of which testifies to the history of their time. Additionally, the neighborhood is crowded with residential buildings in various architectural styles, including urban hanok, Western-style residential buildings for commoners, multi-household residential buildings, small apartment, and textile factories with residential quarters. The film attempts to narrate and archive today's Cheongpa-dong in corporeal gestures. In each corner of Cheongpa-dong, houses with different temporal layers are cluttered together, where endangered narratives create consonance in discordance and move about in a lively manner. When looking down from Cheongpa hill, one gets an entire view of the forest of skyscrapers and newly built Seoullo-7017, adorned with colorful streetlights. Across from this landscape of massive metropolis, what will be portrayed in corporeal gestures are the temporal-space of Cheongpa-dong, traces of life, and the landscape of the neighborhood located on the blue hill, soon to be disappeared in the sweep of urban redevelopment.

World Premiere