The 21st Seoul Independent Animation Festival
Seoul Indie-AniFest202518. SEP(THU).2025 ~ 23. SEP(TUE).2025
10th (2014)
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Subway
NA Giyong 1995 0:05:28 2D ComputerThe subway lines like blood vessels or spider-webs under the heart of a big city project our images like a blue mirror. Urban concrete roads which get larger and larger every day likens to a Baobab tree and a mannequin flowing under it. There is no human being in modern urban glamorous city due to absence of tomorrow. The edge of a city is hollow since there are only signs left.
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OPEN
JUNG Donghee 1996 0:05:58 2D Computer, RotoscopeThe matches live in the place with no personal freedom. One day, each match disappears one by one.
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Tomorrow Human
JEON Seung-il 1994 0:03:20 2D ComputerI dealt with the subject material of nature destruction due to environmental pollution. This film warns that the situation in the film might be real for our near future; future human live in the virtual space where has been destroyed by human desires.
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Survival
SON Youngdeuk 1997 0:05:10 2D Computer, 3D ComputerA grasshopper is flying between flowers and grass. Looking for food, the grasshopper sits on grass. A person walks up to it from somewhere. He is carrying a gun, so looks like a hunter. He smokes while taking a break. He finds out the grasshopper and catches its legs by his finger. He enjoys torturing the grasshopper by burning it with his lighter. The grasshopper keeps repeating to try to run away from the light, and soon gets tired. After the grasshopper becomes tired, the hunter loses his interest. He disappears leaving the grasshopper behind.
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Daddy and I
KIM Eun-su, KIM Hea-joung, PARK Mi-seon, LEE Kyung-hwa, LEE Dong-jae, LEE Song-hee, JUNG You-jin 1999 0:07:00 2D ComputerDaddy comes back home through the brilliant light of neon signs, Mommy prepares for dinner, and the girl is playing with her doll. The bell rings and daddy comes in. He watches TV in his bedroom, and mommy keeps doing her housework. After finishing working, mommy goes out. The girl who left home gets sexually assaulted by her dad. Her wounded mind runs away to find mommy’s trace into her illusionary space.
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Eden
KIM Hye-won 2008 0:03:45 2D ComputerOn flower trees in spring, birds are singing. Floral leaves fall down by wind. As floral leaves come down from the beautiful sky to the ground, deer are grazing grass peacefully. Deer run away from a person, but the person, in an instant, pulls antler and put it on his head. After drinking blood of deer, he runs forward and kills animals in front of him.
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The Mouse Trap (Jwideot)
HAN Woon 2007 0:06:14 2D Computer, 3D Computer, DrawingA human being is like a mouse trap and the city looks like a minefield.
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Why not communication
PARK Yong-jae 2004 0:08:00 2D Computer, Cut-outsTux 1, 2 and 3 want to have a cowboy hat, and a man in a cowboy hat makes an appearance in front of them. Tuxedoes keep eyes on the cowboy, and find out that the cowboy is more interested in men than women. Now they start to threaten him. They say that the cowboy hat is a symbol of a man, so he doesn’t become the hat. The cowboy begins to run so that not to lose his hat and tuxedoes runs after him. When the police see this situation, they realize something suspicious and chase after them. After the cowboy runs away for a while, he reaches a place where a symbol of men is painted. He starts to like the new place. At the moment, tuxedoes find him and try to approach to him. A drag queen in the place starts to shoot a water gun towards them. They use their fists to the drag queen. Getting upset, the people in the place try to attack the tuxedoes, but the police shoot their guns.
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880,000won
KIM Il-hyun 2009 0:08:00 2D ComputerBeing hard up for money, Man 1 worries about spending money for between a date with his girlfriend and living expenses. A rabbit is pulled out of the hat suddenly.
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Sorrow Unknown
RYU Mo-seon 2014 0:14:35 2D ComputerMyung-hee lives in a redevelopment area in ruins where they tore down some houses after evicting. Myung-hee’s homeroom teacher asks Shin-ae who lives in next village to visit Myung-hee’s house, since Myung-hee has been absent herself from school for a couple of days. Shin-ae meets Myung-hee who suffers from the evicting sound there. Are the people who live here not human being?