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A fisherman, Young-Chul, who lives on an island, arrives at a city in the hot summer to show a white shark to his friend, Joon-Goo. Joon-Goo who is busy gambling somewhere does not show up, and the shark in Young-Chul’s bag is going bad. Yoo-Soo, who Young-Chul ran into at a park is released from prison and wandering from street to street not knowing where he can find his house. A crazy woman, Eun-Suk praying for rain in the middle of the park under glaring sunshine starts to chase Young-Chul and Yoo-Soo. She thinks the stink of the rotting shark is her dead baby’s smell.
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A project spanning three years of production and research, Lion is a collection of 7 short films exploring the Chornobyl disaster, the nature of radiation, memory, and personal history. Conceptually arranged in to a film “album”, Lion’s seven works navigate atomic fallout and a girl’s adolescence, a dream before death, radiation as a cause and cure for cancer, masculine bravado, feminine obsession, a trip to Chornobyl amongst the death of a matriarch, and the destruction of memory. Composed of seven works, Lion is a series of films created on 16mm and hand processed with darkroom techniques that mimic the effects of radiation on film. Researched in Chornobyl, the series is a product of memories, history, pop culture and technical experiments to create visual representations of invisible forces.
