Fantastic Short Films 9

The Craft

Monira AL QADIRI|Kuwait, Lebanon|2017 |16min |Korean Premiere |G

Code Time Theater Rate GV
353 7/15  10:00 - 11:13 CGV Bucheon 7 12 GV
541 7/17  17:30 - 18:43 Songnae Solan Art Hall 12
949 7/21  11:00 - 12:13 CGV Bucheon 6 12 GV
353 7/15  10:00 - 11:13CGV Bucheon 7
12  GV
541 7/17  17:30 - 18:43Songnae Solan Art Hall
12
949 7/21  11:00 - 12:13CGV Bucheon 6
12  GV

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Program Note

This home video-style film revolves around childish fictions laced with serious suspicions towards the real world. “Were my parents conspiring with aliens behind my back?”. Reality gradually disintegrates like quicksand around this central question, as paranoia and speculation begin to take hold.

Program Note

To the eyes of the director, who was a little child during the Gulf War, the invasion of Kuwait by Iraq looked like an invasion of the aliens. As a grown-up, he used his childhood imaginations to make a film with the blurred boundary between a ary and a Sci-Fi movie. A lie with a little bit of truth sounds more true. If this film does not look like a ridiculous science fiction movie to you, it is because it includes a vivid memory of the war that the director experienced firsthand. (HWANG Hye-min)

Director

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Monira AL QADIRI

Monira Al Qadiri is a Kuwaiti visual artist born in Senegal and educated in Japan. In 2010, she received a Ph.D. in inter-media art from Tokyo University of Arts. She is also part of the artist collective GCC, who held a solo exhibition at MoMA PS1 in New York.