Schedule

Code
231
Time
7/5  19:30 - 21:57
Theater
CGV Sopung 4
Rate
12
Event
Guest Visit
Code
630
Time
7/9  19:30 - 21:57
Theater
CGV Sopung 6
Rate
12
Event
Guest Visit
Code
1106
Time
7/14  13:30 - 15:57
Theater
Korea Manhwa Museum
Rate
12

Unless following Subtitle code is marked, all films will have English subtitles
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Korean Fantastic: Features

Esper's Light

JUNG Jae-hoon|Korea|2024|147min |World Premiere |12+

Schedule

Code
231
Time
7/5  19:30 - 21:57
Theater
CGV Sopung 4
Rate
12
Event
Guest Visit
Code
630
Time
7/9  19:30 - 21:57
Theater
CGV Sopung 6
Rate
12
Event
Guest Visit
Code
1106
Time
7/14  13:30 - 15:57
Theater
Korea Manhwa Museum
Rate
12

Unless following Subtitle code is marked, all films will have English subtitles
º°¾ÆÀÌÄÜNotice of No English-Subtitle

Program Note

Esper's Light is, above all, a film filled with sensory pleasures. The task of creating the visual pleasure in the film is carried out with the awareness that the nature of this pleasure includes not only enjoyment and joy but also pain and confusion in similar textures. This film, which draws a group of dozens of teenagers to the center, alternates between documentary footage that observes their daily lives and the fantastical world of a low-budget B-movie genre. The records collected directly from reality interlock with the fictional symbols of various genres (SF, fantasy, monster movies, adventure films, crime films), constructing an image of a world that cannot be reduced to traditional representation logic. In this stage, JUNG Jae-hoon reconstructs the archetypal subject of 'the man with the camera' into the contemporary form of 'teenagers with smartphones.' The image of teenagers holding smartphones, looking at the light of display screens, and leaving posts on social media platforms transforms into adventurous subjects holding torches, looking at the light supplied to the entire city, and exploring forests and islands. Esper's Light, with countless characters, scenes, and symbols appearing and disappearing abruptly, is an adventurous and bizarre work that renews the material form of cinema. (KIM Byeonggyu)

Director

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JUNG Jae-hoon

Born in 1986 in Seoul, Korea. He has made non-fiction/fiction films with cinematic genre and sense; Hosu-gil (2009), Hurrahh! (2011), Tenderly (2013), Turbulence at Dodoli Hill (2017), and Trans-Continental-Railway (2021). Those films have been invited to Yamagata International. Documentary Film Festival, Jeonju International. Film Festival, Cinema Digital Seoul(CinDi), Experimental Film & Video Festival in Seoul(Exis), Seoul Independent Film Festival, and more.

Credit

Producer
KO Yoohee
Screenplay
Natasha VLADLENA, SIM Daha, LEE Saena and 12 others
Cinematographer
PARK Swan
Editor
JUNG Jae-hoon
Sound
BAE Soochan
Music
Goh-woo, CHOI Taehyun
Production Design
(Special Props, Seendosi) LEE Byungjae, LEE Yunho
Cast
Natasha VLADLENA, SIM Daha, LEE Saena and others
Sales
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