24th(2022)
| Opening Film (1) | Discovery (12) |
| Asian Shorts (20) | I-Teens (6) |
| New Currents (26) | The Landscape of Here in Now (5) |
| Polemics (6) | Queer Rainbow (7) |
| Feminist Collective (9) | The moments with Yeri HAN (10) |
| Remembering Oblivion (4) | Restored (10) |
| Film X Gender (2) | Barrier Free (1) |
| Documentary Ock Rang (2) | Special Screening (1) |
| In Memory of KANG Soo-yeon (1) |
Harvesting the Light: The Graves of Diaspora
KIM Soyoung, Amy LEE
- South Korea
- 2021
- 14min
- DCP
- color
SYNOPSIS
PROGRAM NOTE
A vast land where the sound of the wind gathers in the ears. The sun begins to set, and light is projected on a public cemetery. Images that flash in the moment through the light are those of Koryo people forcibly relocated to various parts of Central Asia in the Japanese colonial era. Harvesting the Light: The Graves of Diaspora is the work of artist Amy Lee supplemented with archival photos. It calls the dead one by one and takes care of their graves. These fantasy-like scenes were probably the dreams of two North Korean girls who came to Kamchatka to work in 1955 on a sad and desolate night. A dream that the Koryo people visited to comfort the girls. [JANG Yunmi]
Director
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KIM SoyoungKIM Soyoung
Kim is both a scholar and a director. She has directed a documentary trilogy on women’s history – Koryu: Southern Women, South Korea (2000), I’ll Be Seeing Her (2003), and New Woman: Her First Song (2004) – as well as the feature film Viewfinder (2009) and a feature documentary, Drifting City (2015). Kim has also worked on a trilogy regarding the Korean diaspora and their story in Central Asia – Heart of Snow (2014), Sound of Nomad: Koryo Arirang (2016), and Goodbye My Love, North Korea (2017). -
Amy LEEAmy LEE
Amy is a Korean cartoonist and animation director.
Credit
- ProducerKIM Soyoung, LEE Youngwoo
- Screenwriter KIM Soyoung
- Cinematography SHIN Imho, KANG Jinseok
- Art director LEE Amy
- Editor KIM Soyoung, LEE Amy
- Music KIM Soyoung
