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The Strangers

Director
Sohee Myoung
Info
2018 | 80min 56sec | color | DCP | English subtitles

 

Synopsis

I always have nightmares in autumn. Desperate to shake them off, I thought of home and went to see my mom who remains hard-working as always, and my hometown, Chuncheon, which is not the same. I recapture our family portrait in vanishing memories and spaces.

 

Director's Statement

It was autumn of 2012 when I first started this film. I just took my camera and decided to record my mom, while I still had no clue to why I should tell her story. I evaded answering to such question, thinking myself that ¡®I just have some things to ask her¡¯. Actually, I deeply wanted her consolation though I had avoided and ignored my mom for a long time. After hearing the story of that day for about an hour, I was told by my mom that ¡®Let us forget¡¯. Tears came out in agony. I was helpless because I understood my mom and, at the same time, was never able to understand her. Are we really destined to be hurt and hate each other?

 

Biography

Sohee Myoung
So-hee Myoung began making documentary films by chance in 2011 and continues to do so today. While working as the assistant director on How to Become a Chair (2014), she revisited ¡°me and my mom¡¯s story,¡± which she had given up two years earlier. Hence began a long ¡°visit¡± (The Strangers literal translation) in Chuncheon.
2015 / 24 / 37min / Directing

 

Staff
Producer     Kim Ilkwon 
Cinematographer     Myoung Sohee  Kim Byounggoo 
Editor     Myoung Sohee 
Music     Twomyoung 

 

Distribution
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