Model Starship

A very brief encounter with the world of the stars.

X

The unknown X becomes a whole symphony of shapes…

All Rot

Responding to the compositional and aesthetic qualities of abstract expressionism and cameraless animation, <All Rot> uses photographic reanimation to render the mundane environment of a decaying crazy golf course into a rapturous split-screen experiment in synaesthetic cinema.

1925 Aka Hell

Inspired by the work of French outsider artist Augustin Lesage. A symbolic Composition of the spiritual world from 1925.

Song of the Sea

Tells the story of Ben and his little sister Saoirse – the last Seal-child – who embark on a fantastic journey across a fading world of ancient legend and magic in an attempt to return to their home by the sea. The film takes inspiration from the mythological Selkies of Irish folklore, who live as seals in the sea but become humans on land.

ON THE WHITE PLANET

Everything on the White Planet is black and white. Everyone on the planet has white skin. On this planet, CHOI Min-je is the only person whose skin bears color. Everyone treats him like a monster. Min-je is raised, locked up in his own room and exposed to extreme violence. One day when Min-je is 15, his mother falls apart, killing her husband and takes her own life. Min-je witnesses it all and believes that everything has happened because he is different. He wants an ordinary life like others, and the only way to achieve that is to get out of this planet. The sky is filled with such beautiful colours. Somewhere beyond the sky, surely exist people just like him. Then people who claim that they can help, show up in Min-je’s life.

Special Talk ‘Animation and People’ by Director AHN Jae-hun

Soul

The funeral car passes through the field. When it arrives at the cemetery, the coffin is removed from the car and buried it in the ground. The body is decomposed by insects and animals. The last remaining life essence is absorbed by the roots of a tree, becoming a tiny fruit. The widow who visits the grave shares the fruit with a man and a new life is conceived. This film is a parody of reincarnation, questioning man’s selfish concerns revolving around his own life.

Ashes in the Thicket

The Protagonist observes a U.F.O accidentally, and suffers from hallucination that his body gets torn to pieces by a strange power. His illusion becomes serious, and finally his lover and he commit suicide so as to escape from the illusion. After death, however, they find themselves standing on a strange land where half bodies of others are wandering. Even their half bodies are also died out on a wire fence.

O-nu-ri

In the beginning of time, there lives a girl named O-nu-ri in an island called Won-Chun Khang. No one knows when and where O-nu-ri was born and coming from. Won-Chun Khang is a beautiful place where spring, summer, fall and winter originated. In this peaceful land, O-nu-ri lives with a mother-like big crane named Ya-Ah, who is taking care of O-nu-ri as one of her child. One quiet night, O-nu-ri is kidnapped by several men. Here, O-nu-ri’s long journey begins in search of Ya-Ah in Won-Chun Khang.