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DANCE FILM OPEN CALL

UNTIL FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Heart’s Funeral

Sye Young Park & Min Kyoung Lee
Friday 3. Nov 2023
20:00 GMT+1
Metropolis Kino
  • Dance Film
Republic of Korea

| Synopsis

Heart’s Funeral, a film recreated based on the dance performance ‘♡’, approaches the theme of the transition of family through a funeral of an old family and a memorial ceremony of a new family.

Nowadays, personal entertainment devices represented by a smartphone and ‘human and non-human relationships’ in them dismantle and replace families at the same time, making us concerned and hopeful that this new world will make future families more hellish – or heavenly – than now. Portraying the reduction and collapse of the funeral hall itself, the repetition and variation in situations and characters as well as teleportation into alternate reality through electronic devices, the film embodies an experience where family relationships, both close and distant, change and transform.

(* ♡ premiered as part of the KNCDC’s My Family are Off- limits in 2021.)

| Credits

Director: Sye Young Park, Min Kyoung Lee
Writer: Sye Young Park, Min Kyoung Lee
Executive Producer: Kyung Min Ko
Line Producer: San Hee Jeong
Cast: Min Kyoung Lee, Esl Kim, Se Mi Lim, Hyun Do Jo

Sye Young Park & Min Kyoung Lee

| Biography

Syeyoung Park is a filmmaker based in South Korea. He is interested in the dialogue and friction between fiction and nonfiction. He builds narratives from these frictions and works via film, videos, and experimental shorts.

Min Kyoung Lee (Seoul) is a dance and performance artist, working in and between the fields of theatre, video and text. Min explores dance in its experiential state, the psychological state of conversion and conviction, and conditions and roles of an artist in contemporary world in various invented ways.

| Biography

Syeyoung Park is a filmmaker based in South Korea. He is interested in the dialogue and friction between fiction and nonfiction. He builds narratives from these frictions and works via film, videos, and experimental shorts.

Min Kyoung Lee (Seoul) is a dance and performance artist, working in and between the fields of theatre, video and text. Min explores dance in its experiential state, the psychological state of conversion and conviction, and conditions and roles of an artist in contemporary world in various invented ways.