The 21st Seoul Independent Animation Festival
Seoul Indie-AniFest202518. SEP(THU).2025 ~ 23. SEP(TUE).2025
19th (2023)
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ORIGIN
Erick OH 2022 0:06:08 3D ComputerLife, in and of itself, constitutes dazzling beauty, hope, happiness and light. At the same time, it can be meaningless and shallow, leading to despair, fear, sorrow and gloom. Origin poses its core message by asking spiritual questions about our very existence. Where do we come from and where are we going? What is our true origin?
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Don’t Die
PARK Yuseon 2023 0:04:48 2D ComputerA human carelessly throws a stone that kills a frog, but the frog returns to life and takes revenge on the human.
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Bye bye
KIM Beomsik 2022 0:08:43 3D ComputerThe kind and sincere delivery man forcibly increases his work after hearing the news of his father's disconnection of hospital expenses. The delivery man, who worked day and night, falls asleep on the road and recalls the memories of delivery with his father in his dream.
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A Long Alone
YEO Eun-a 2023 0:07:41 2D ComputerThe record of discontinued time and place, from dying alone to discovery. One year period after a person’s solitary death is shown in time-lapse. Inside the house, there are traces of his fierce life, and the audience can guess his life by following the traces. The house stays at the time of his death. On the contrary, the exterior landscape constantly changes, giving a feeling of contrast to the house. A year later, his body is found, and the scene of his death is cleared by special cleaners.
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I Am a Horse
IM Chaerin 2022 0:07:58 2D Computer, etcAmong the many works by the artist Lee Jung-seob, in which girls seldom appeared, this is the story of the female half-tiger and half-horse. In a patriarchal world where the female role is that of the daughter, wife, or mother, these female runners are free and fierce.
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Mannequin’s Dream
RYU Hyeok 2022 0:01:09 3D ComputerA man records the ruined dressing room with a camera. And the deeper he goes inside, the more he realizes that something terrible has happened here.
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One Night Out
YOO Seungah 2022 0:02:11 3D ComputerDeep in the night, a man and a girl are driving along the open road. Romantic music is playing on the radio, and the man tries to make his move to the girl. Just then, a woman abruptly shows up in front of their car, and the girl hits the brake hard.
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How to Get Your Man Pregnant
NOH Gyeongmu 2023 0:29:59 2D Computer, Cut-outs, RotoscopeThis film is set in South Korea in the year 2030. Jeonghwan Choi and Yujin Kang have been married for ten years. Yujin is worn out after failing to conceive through IVF treatment. The genius medical doctor, Dr. Samsin Kim, has been researching male pregnancy technology, which is now available publicly. Yujin convinces Jeonghwan to visit Dr. Samsin Kim and he is sucked into the male pregnancy project.
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Mars Colony Plan
LEE Yongsun 2023 0:12:29 2D Computer, 3D ComputerA story of dreams and desperation of Dal-hwan who, renouncing the hopeless civil service exam, invests in stocks, following 'Melon Mask' like his big brother, the representative of 'Tezola' and the icon of hope of his generation.
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Swimming
SEO Saerom 2023 0:11:09 2D ComputerIn the near future, even the subconscious mind can’t be hidden from the public eye of social media. This fake documentary drama tells the story of a user of the real-time subconscious access app “Swimming” who tries to alter the subconscious thoughts of their ex-lover but ultimately blows up their own subconscious instead.