Program Note
People’s biggest goal today seems to click many ‘likes’ from morning to bedtime. In this new world, where our senses are replaced by smart phones and social networking services, what we have long desired is simple attention. Selfie, directed by five directors, sarcastically observes people who are obsessed with attention seeking, or who are rejected within the network system controlling our daily lives: A vlog about a son suffering from an incurable disease, a devoted family obsessing about numbers of subscribers, and a petty man who has never had a date, who wants to become popular by faking the number of hits on a dating app. Who are the attention seekers? They are pathetic people, not dissimilar to, us who live an era where even romance, family solidarity and the popularity of K-pop girl groups is impossible without social media ‘likes’. (Jin PARK)