Korean Competition for Shorts

Guidance by Dokkaebi Fire

Justin Jinsoo KIM
USA, Korea 2024 19min DCP Color/B&W Experimental 12World Premiere

Schedule

CGV Jeonjugosa 6

Date

2024. 05. 02

Time

21:00

Code

160
KE
E
12
CGV Jeonjugosa 6

Date

2024. 05. 04

Time

14:00

Code

326
KE
E
12
GV
CGV Jeonjugosa 6

Date

2024. 05. 05

Time

17:30

Code

441
KE
E
12
GV
MEGABOX Jeonju Gaeksa 3

Date

2024. 05. 09

Time

10:00

Code

808
KE
E
12

Overview

For the purpose of collection, preservation, and recording, numerous faces that existed in different times and places densely gather in a single space. Among them are photos of Koreans taken during the Japanese occupation era for physical measurements and Buddha statues with severed heads for reasons unknown.

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Review

Jean-Luc Godard likened films to “museums of the night”. Museums are spaces where the power dynamics engraved within art, history, and media confront each other in a convoluted way, and are places of theft that allow films to be born. In Guidance by Dokkaebi Fire, we follow a dokkaebi fire toward a fictional museum full of headless Buddhist statues, anonymous bodies, and portraits of Joseon people. Each of the photos, pieces, and paintings sketch unrealized imaginations as well as histories that have not been resolved on the surface. As such, film screens are places of ghostly museology that contain vanished records and create manifestations of fiction that cannot come to being. (KIM Byeonggyu)

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Credit

  • DirectorJustin Jinsoo KIM
  • ProducerJustin Jinsoo KIM
  • CinematographyJustin Jinsoo KIM
  • EditorJustin Jinsoo KIM
  • SoundJustin Jinsoo KIM

Film Source

Justin Jinsoo KIM⎜justinjinsookimart@gmail.com

Director

Justin Jinsoo KIM

Born in 1993, he directed 6 films, including The Far and Near (2023) and The Exhausted (2021). He recently screened at the 61st New York Film Festival and the 20th Experimental Film and Video Festival in Seoul.