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HONG Ki-seon: The Cinema Beyond Suppression

If You Were Me 3: An Ephemeral Life

HONG Ki-seon

Korea2006 17min DCP Color

Synopsis

A part of the If You Were Me 3 series. A temporary worker cannot go home although he has received the news of his mother’s death.

Diretor

HONG Ki-seon

Hong Ki-seon, who is part of the first generation of the Korean independent film movement, made the initial independent film organization named ‘Seoul Film Collective’(later on to be known as ‘Seoul Visual Collective’). He directed Cutting the Sorrow With a Knife Stuck in the Chest (1992), which was his debut film, and The Road Taken (2003), Where the Truth Lies (2009). The Discloser (2016) is his posthumous work.