2009 – 14 min – Taiwan/Korea – Korean w/ English subtitles – color
International Premiere
Distinctions
53rd Asia-Pacific Film Festival 2009
Synopsis
Jung-Mi has been living with a shadow overhead, due to the death of her father during childhood. Ever since then, Jung-Mi avoids just about everything (including her mother) which might remind her of her father. One day (on her father’s death anniversary), Jung-Mi goes on a trip to visit a place she used to know. Unbelievably, she not only gets to meet her dead father, who happens to lead her into a fantastic journey back to her childhood, but also gets to learn the meaning of life which forces her facing up to the facts of her fears and unfulfilled wishes.
Director’s Bio
Chih-Wei Chang, born July 27, 1983 in Taoyuan, Taiwan, with a father from Taiwan and a mother from South Korea, spent his childhood in South Africa, mostly educated in Taiwan, and is a Taiwanese citizen. Chih-Wei is an independent film maker and a writer for Behind The Scene (Taipei Film Commission). He graduated from The Department of Radio and Television, National Taiwan University of Arts in 2007, and is now studying in The Graduate School of Advanced Imaging Science, Multimedia, and Film Making, Chung-Ang University (Korea).
Director’s Statement
This film is mainly based on the purpose to discuss about “Dream”, “Memory” and “Reality”. People often see these three elements as each individual, but to me, they seem to be just the same. Since “Dream” is the combination result of memory (past), vision (future), fears and desires. While “Memory” refers to the things which belongs in the past, (funny is that, last night’s dream also becomes this morning’s memory). “Reality” is on the present time-line which never stops persueing the future, happiness, goal and “Dream”. On the other hand “Reality” also keeps on making memories and dreams.
The Diamond Sutra carries a simple wisdom and philosophy which happens to lead us towards an ultimate answer for the meaning of life, which say: “Everything perceived will pass away, like a dream, like an illusion, like a bubble, like a shadow, like a dew, and like a lightning. You should think everything as such.” Thus, I would say, “Dream”→“Memory”→“Reality”→“Dream”→“Memory”→“Reality”………
