Film Awards
The 2nd Asian Hot Shots Berlin (2009,Germany)
The 32th Sao Paolo International Film Festival (2008,Brazil)
The 5th Hong Kong Asian Film Festival (2008,Hong Kong)
The 43th Karlovy Vary Int'l Film Festival (2008,Czech Republic)
. (2008,United Arab Emirates)
The 19th Stokholm International Film Festival (2008,Sweden)
The 14th Lyon Asian Film Festival (2008,France)
The 12th Busan International Film Festival (2007,Korea)
Synopsis
'A' wakes up in a tub to find that one of his kidneys has been stolen. While trying to find his missing organ, he meets a writer and learns that he is just a character in an unfinished film and he will meet an actor who will play A in the film. The director of this film tries to put A on the top of the film in order to take complete control.
In the meantime, staffs working on this film also realize the fact that this script is unfinished and start searching the writer’s house for the ending.
A, too, tries to seek out his own character’s essence in order to help bring closure to the unfinished story. For the ending, the characters, writer and director beautifully collide.
Director's Note
This film makes the broken boundary between the reality and the fiction ambiguous and asks a question of the characters.
While watching the film, like we recognize as if the film were real, the characters will be recognized as they were real.
The characters are not the writer's creatures but organisms and are autonomous in the story. Therefore, the earnest feeling of the characters is same as ours.
I ask the characters a question. “Do you want to be written in the story or to write the story?”
Director's Bio / Filmography
- KIM Byung-woo
Born in Busan in 1980.
Majored in Theater & Film at Hanyang University.
2001 [Cry] DV 6mm, color, 5’10”
Audience Award, Resfest Digital Film Festival (2001, Korea)
2003 [Ananophic] DV 6mm, color, 85min.
7th Pucheon Int’l Fantastic Film Festival (2003, Korea)
Resfest Digital Film Festival (2003, Korea)
29th Seoul Independent Film Festival (2003, Korea)
2007 [WRITTEN] HD, color, 87min.
2nd Asian Hot Shots Berlin (2009, Germany)
14th Lyon Asian Film Festival (2008, France)
5th Hong Kong Asian Film Festival (2008, HongKong)
19th Stockholm International Film Festival (2008, Sweden)
32nd São Paulo International Film Festival (2008, Brazil)
2nd Annual Middle East International Film Festival (2008, the United Arab Emirates)
NETPAC Award, Forum of Independent, 43rd Karlovy Int’l Film Festival (2008, Czech Republic)
Korean Cinema Today–Vision, 12th Pusan Int’l Film Festival (2007, Korea)
2013 [The Terror, LIVE] 97min.
Staff
Director/screenplay/Editing :KIM Byung-woo
Producer : LEE Byung-han
Cinematography : KIM Ji-hoon
Lighting : SONG Hyun-seok, KIM Young-duk
Production Designer : David CHOI
Composer : KIM Kyung-yong
Sound Mixing : PYO Yong-soo
Sound Recording : HONG Sang-woo
Cast
LEE Jin-seok as Character A
KIM Bo-young as Writer
LEE Sang-hyuk as Actor
PARK Jin-soo as Director
KIM Moo-sin as the Man
HAN Jung-yi as the Woman
