28th Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival
Requiem
director: Myun Yi
original title: 염(殮)
country: Republic of Korea (South Korea)
year: 2019
running time: 11 min.
synopsis
This slow-moving film creates intensive experience of continuously nearly indiscernible - yet in the length of the whole film invariably distinct - changes of shadows, spaces and shapes carved by dark branches into the light mist that besets the statue-like steadiness of the thickening forest just to relinquish it the very next moment.
“I wrote poems on the streets, wary of irresponsible parables of nature. The imagination of the street was pain and I loved it. But I still believe that the greatest subverbs are in nature.” M. Yi
biography
Korean director Yi Myun (1973) graduated in music composition. The film soundtrack is inspired by traditional music, combined with melancholy images of urban landscapes, seemingly alive regardless of the absence of their human inhabitants. The Ji.hlava IDFF has screened Myun’s films Field (2014) and Afterimage (2016).more about film
director: | Myun Yi |
producer: | Myun Yi |
editing: | Myun Yi |
music: | Myun Yi |