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Fantastic Short Films 19 - Off the Screen

The Lady from 406

LEE Kyoung-mi

Korea2017 14min

Synopsis

The woman in the upper floor is getting crazy because of the cigarette smoke coming up from the under floor. She finally visits the house below, but the man there says something unexpected.

Program Note

The Lady from 406 by LEE Kyoung-mi starts to talk about the issue of noisy upstairs neighbors and smoking in the apartment buildings as extremely ordinary scenes, but it makes an attempt to agree with the fundamental and universal emotions that our contemporaries feel. To the eyes of the director, the apartment building is no more than a Rubik’s cube, a pile of rooms of molecular entities that are locked in their rooms while holding onto their deficiency, wounds and sense of alienation. (CHO Jae-hwi)

Diretor

LEE Kyoung-mi

She graduated from the Korean National University of Arts and is a film director and writer. After receiving attention for Feel Good Story (2004), her first feature Crush And Blush (2008) won the New Director’s Award at the 2008 Blue Dragon Awards. Her latest feature The Truth Beneath (2015), won the Best Screenplay at 2017 Chunsa Film Festival.