Year: 2003
Duration: 76
Gah-in and Doo-hee don't know each other, but they share a man and
the desire to affirm their own identity. Gah-in, a 26-year-old Korean
student who lives in the United States, has an affair with Jun, a
married man. He awakens a sense of guilt in her, which is increased by
the anorexia that is devouring her. Too proud to feel sorry for herself,
she fights against depression. Jun's wife, Doo-hee, discovers she is
pregnant after cheating on her husband. She returns to Korea and is
forced to make an urgent and difficult decision which prevents her from
truly realizing her own desire for rebirth. Through these bodies that
bear the signs of pain and trauma, Gina Kim draws a bleak portrait of
the women and casts a cruel light on human relationships and the search
for an identity.
Biography
film director
Gina Kim
Gina Kim was born in Seoul (Korea) in 1973. She graduated from the Seoul National University School of Fine Arts before moving to the United States, where she studied at Cal Arts. There, she dedicated herself to studying the body and the desire to withdraw oneself from it, telling of experiences, fears and personal doubts through video diaries which have won numerous prizes throughout the world. Anorexia (Flying Appetite, 1998), the commercialization of the female body (OK Man, This is Your World, 1995), and isolation (Morning Becomes Ecletic, 2001) are the themes she confronts in her first works and reflect her tormented interior universe. Her latest works are Gina Kim's Video Diary (2002), about her conflictual relationship with her mother, and Invisible Light (2003), her first full-length fiction film.
FILMOGRAFIA
Ok Man, This is Your World (cm, 1995), Flying Appetite (cm, 1998), Empty House (cm, 1999), Morning Becomes Ecletic (cm, 2001), Kim Gina - Eui Bidio Ilgi/Gina Kim's Video Diary (2002), Geu jip ap/Invisible light (2003).
Cast
& Credits
Regia, soggetto, sceneggiatura/Directory, story, screenplay: Gina Kim
Fotografia/Director of photography: Peter Gray, Benito Strangio
Montaggio/Film editor: K. Han, Gina Kim
Suono/Sound: Jan Oh, Woo-jin Cho
Interpreti/Cast: Lee Sun Jin, Choi Yoon Sun, Jung Chan
Produttore/Producer: Kyung Hyung Kim
Produzione, distribuzione/Production, distribution: Picture Book Movies
Fotografia/Director of photography: Peter Gray, Benito Strangio
Montaggio/Film editor: K. Han, Gina Kim
Suono/Sound: Jan Oh, Woo-jin Cho
Interpreti/Cast: Lee Sun Jin, Choi Yoon Sun, Jung Chan
Produttore/Producer: Kyung Hyung Kim
Produzione, distribuzione/Production, distribution: Picture Book Movies