The 21st Seoul Independent Animation Festival

Seoul Indie-AniFest202518. SEP(THU).2025 ~ 23. SEP(TUE).2025

20th (2024)
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Seoul Indie-AniFest2024 Independent Walk
Circle /
  • Joung Yumi
  • 2024
  • 00:06:50
  • 2D Computer, Drawing
Screening Schedule
DateTimeVenue
2024. 9. 28(SAT) 13:30 GV CINEMA 6
2024. 9. 29(SUN) 18:30 CINEMA 6
Synopsis

The girl draws a circle on the ground. Passersby step into it, one by one. Soon the circle is full of people, struggling to stay within. Once the girl returns and erases the circle, people start heading their way.

Director's Comment

We are walled in by numerous amounts of stereotypes that exist in this world, Our purpose in life slowly chiseled as we strive to fit in and live amongst others, Until all there is left but a small circle of life. The circle represents all the ideas that exist in this world. I worked on this piece hoping to set ourselves free from the confines of our minds.

Staff

Producer KIM Ki-hyun

Scenario/Storyboard/Character/BG/Lay Out JEONG Yu-mi

Animation PARK Young-eun, JEONG Yu-mi

Sound GONG Tae-won

Editing KIM Ki-hyun, JEONG Yu-mi

Detailed description

The girl draws a circle, but what does it mean? For some it might represent a frame of thought, and for others perhaps a social group. Or it might be a desire to confine oneself to the “mainstream.” If we begin to discuss the meaning of the circle, we soon discover the “circle” that we each carry within ourselves. The seemingly plain drawings on paper offer a certain lightness of feeling. The spacious scenes are somehow filled in their center by the small, dense circle. As we watch the people filling in the circle, one can’t help but think there is still space for more. KIM Kyeongbae

Filmography
감독
  • Joung Yumi 
  • 2024 [Circle]
    2023 [THE WAVES]
    2022 [House of Existence]
    2013 [LOVE GAMES]
    2010 [MATH TEST]
    2009 [DUST KID]
    2006 [My Little Doll’s House]