36° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
WAVES

NOTHING OR EVERYTHING

NOTHING OR EVERYTHING
by Gyeol Kim
Country: South Korea
Year: 2018
Duration: 84'


In both the past and the present, two people walk deep into a mountain forest. For these two women born and raised in the city, there is no place more unfamiliar. It is a place where all kinds of living things are breathing. Here, two people in the present climb the mountain, following two people from the past.

Biography

film director

Kim Gyeol

Kim Gyeol (Seoul, South Korea), after graduating from the Department of Theater and Film at Hanyang University, majored in film directing at the Korea Academy of Film Arts (KAFA). The short film Rabbits and Bears won in 2005 the Grand Prize at the Busan International Short Film Festival and the Best Direction Prize at the Henry Langlois Film Festival. She was invited to various film festivals including the Clermont-Ferrand International Short Film Festival, Molodist International Film Festival, BFI London Film Festival and Paris Cinéma Film Festival. Nothing or Everything is her first feature.

FILMOGRAFIA

Rabbits and Bears (cm, 2005), Amugeot ttoneun modeungeot (Nothing or Everything, 2018)

Declaration

film director

“By maintaining a certain distance between actor and camera, and at the same time changing the depth of the lens, subtle changes in emotion can be registered. In addition, the film does not follow the passage of time but chooses to coexist within two time frames, past and present. As viewers watch the film, they must try to distinguish between past and present by the differences in the actors’ facial expressions, and changes in their tone of voice. I wanted these two people, standing at the border between life and death, to be felt as unmistakably alive. I wanted to say that in order to move away from death, and to take a step forward towards life, one must let it all out; that there’s no other way but to take that wound manifested as trauma and spit it out, by moving your tongue and shaking your vocal cords.”

Cast

& Credits

regia, sceneggiatura, montaggio/director, screenplay, film editing
Kim Gyeol
fotografia /cinematography
Park Sung Yong
suono/sound
Hong Cho sun
interpreti/cast
Le You Young, Kwon So Hyun
produttori/producers
Ada Solomon
Park Sung Yong


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contatti/contacts
Gyeol Kim
gyeolfilm@gmail.com
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