<ORG> (1994)

Director : Lim Chang-jae
Year of Production : 1994
Genre : Experimental Film
Format : 16mm/B&W
Running Time : 13 minutes

Crew :
Director/Screenplay/Cinematography : Lim Chang-jae
Music : Kim Jung-a
Distributor : Indie Story

Cast :
Lee Hyeong-jong, Kim Mi-young

Synopsis

A man talks about suicide. He excludes any classical narrative and searches for the archetypical meaning of suicide. He communicates through images. The images of muddy tidelands, footprints, a razor, an icy river that is melting, drenching a sandy hill, and bricks passes by. And a hole that looks like a drainage hole opens up. Then the screen is filled with circular images. Images of light, an eye, a pupil, a dish, an ashtray, a candle flame, a white dish, a black dish, a hand, an onion, a razor and a bottle flash by on screen and finally the image of blood spreading in water is shown - blood, which is the symbol of both life and death.

Notes

ORG reflects the director’s political consciousness in an experimental style expressing the era’s painful memories through visual images.

Director Bio : Lim Chang-jae (1964- )

He was a member of the New Image Group from 1993 - 1994. He has been a member of Korean Experimental Film Research Center since 1995. His works include ORG (1994), Over Me (1996), Lachrymal (Nunmul) (1998), Aqua Requiem (Akua Rekwiem) (1999) and Transfigured Night (Jeonghwadoen Bam) (2000). He made his commercial debut with Unborn but Forgotten (Hayanbang) in 2002.