Synopsis

In front of the park of apartment complex a nineties-years old man comes walking as usual. While young seniors are playing Korean chess in the park, they don’t give him a room to play together due to the generation gap. Just watching old man, a main character who sat on the bench discovers a 'Walkman' placed next on it. Heis at a loss how to act, plugs the earphone in his ear, and then presses the play button. As suddenly the old man begins to act upside down, the life and the world are rewound at the same time…

 

Director's Statement

I express the relationship between the body and the world through the old man born in 1926 in Anyang who lived in a rapidly changing era.'
The main character is a senior figure to represent the life of the lower middle class citizen. He received Japan’s colonial education, after the liberation he was involved in the war. He had to accept the fast economic growth as given, and lived the life of the smallest unit that makes up the world.
Sadness and pain of the Japanese occupation, war and poverty within the old man’s memory are mixed up with personal memories. All these emotions are implemented as an animation in conjunction with geographic base.
This fairy tale which feels the thick texture of oil pastel should escape a little from the digital efficiency and then go through the analog process to draw one by one by hand.
Making process that implies a temporality by itself is in contact with the past within the story.
The last scene of the animation is a scenetaking a group photo. Like images overlapping behind the scenery blended dimly after taking a picture the memories are dim, embellished, edited, and then are entangled one another.

 

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Staff

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