Synopsis

“You do not belong to this world!” I, a lesbian filmmaker, encounter people crying out against me and LGBTQ people. It is a time of hatred in South Korea. LGBTQ people are the easy targets for hatred. Being dangerous to nation's safety and future, we are branded as 'Pro-North Korean Commies'. In searching for what makes a marginalized life livable, I embark upon a journey. I encounter a double life of Lee Muk, a 70-year-old Korean “Mr. Pants” and precarious lives of a Japanese lesbian couple, Ten and Non, after 3/11. As ever-growing number of citizens are becoming the targets of 'witch-hunting' in Korea, true faces of the haters slowly begin to unfold.

 

Director's Statement

I tried to interweave the mad storm of Chauvinism with expelled lives in this film. When I face people who vent their hatred in public and yell at me “You are ruining this country!”, I feel concern about the effect of this hatred on an individual’s life. What makes a marginalized life livable, when hatred becomes our environment in everyday lives?
By the frame of Chauvinistic hatred, LGBTQ people were branded as “pro-North Korean Gay”, and the grieving families who had lost their children in the tragic sinking of the Sewol ferry were labeled “rebellious force”. Like this, targets of witch-hunting are gradually widened from social minorities to ordinary citizens in South Korea. We can see the current affairs and characters’ lives, which seemed irrelevant at first glance, are connected each other and extended to social meaning through the film. The documentary tries to find the link between us and the world, life of my own and life of the other, and the way to sympathy for the pain of others.

 

Biography

 

Staff

Producer        
Cinematographer        
Editor