The 21st Seoul Independent Animation Festival
Seoul Indie-AniFest202518. SEP(THU).2025 ~ 23. SEP(TUE).2025
10th (2014)
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Indie-AniFest2014 Independent Walk
Aksim /
- LEE Sung-gang
- 2014
- 0:29:00
- 2D Computer
Screening Schedule
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| Fri 26 SEP 11:00 / Sun 28 SEP 15:00 |
Synopsis
While managing to get along in the animal world, a monkey named Aksim accidentally enters the evil forest, where human souls are haunting. In the evil forest where, it is said, souls of monkeys are gnawed and rot, the soul of a girl named Chun-ja comes into the body of Aksim. Following the memory of Chun-ja, Aksim shows a mental crack which makes him go to an irrevocable direction.
Director's Comment
I have been interested, quite a while, in French noir films when Alan De Long was at his best, and Japanese Yakuza films in the 1970s. In those films, there were always solitary protagonists who fight against his ill-fated relationship and sacrifice themselves at the end. I believed that the criminal world which is a concise cinematic space might be a poetic comparison to the human world. I wanted to represent this thought in my own animation. The first idea was a sentence; one day, something comes into the head of a monkey. One day, the soul of a girl named Chun-ja comes into the body of Aksim that adapted to the world of monkeys; it breaks Aksim’s life. That break leads Aksim to an irrevocable way of life. This is how this story starts.
Staff
Producer KIM Eugene
Scenario LEE Sunggang
Storyboard LEE Sunggang
Character Design LEE Sunggang
BG Design LEE Sunggang, HAN Hojin
Lay Out LEE Sunggang
Animation LEE Sunggang, KIM Doyeon
Camera LEE Sunggang
Effect JEONG Hojeong
Sound JEONG Hojeong
Music Hareem
Voice KIM Kkobbi
Editing LEE Sunggang
Filmography
- LEE Sung-gang
2022 [Shape of Wind]
2022 [Princess AYA]
2016 [Kai, The Legend of the Ice Lake]
2014 [Akisim]
2012 [A Monster of the Reservoir]
2008 [A Day of Water Giant]
2007 [Yobi, the Five Tailed Fox]
2005 [Texture of Skin]
2003 [O-Nu-Ri]
2002 [My Beautiful Girl Mari]
1998 [Ashes in the Thicket]
1997 [Umbrella]
1996 [Lovers]
1995 [Soul]