Comfort Film's Guest Film Curator series launches in April as we welcome Korean Cinema Chicago's Jung-Ah Kim as she presents
Bong Joon-ho's Shorts (1994-2008)
The Memories in My Frame (1994, 6min)
: A little boy comes home from school and hears his dog barking, or does he?
Incoherence (1994, 31min)
: Three seemingly unrelated men commit petty crimes on the eve of an important televised discourse on social disorder in Korea.
Sink & Rise (2003, 11min)
: Under the Sungsan Bridge, in a waterside stand by the Han River, a poor and tired-looking father and daughter, Jae-mun, and In-seon, are arguing the generation gap over whether to buy boiled eggs or instant crackers. The stand owner Hee-bong hears Jae-mun suddenly declare that boiled eggs float.
Influenza (2004, 30min)
: Bong’s disturbingly humorous mockumentary traces the downward spiral of an unemployed 31-year-old man as he is captured on Seoul’s omnipresent CCTVs and observation cameras.
Shaking Tokyo (2008, 30min)
: A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman.
Media: Digital Projection
Running Time: 108 Minutes
About: Jung Ah Kim is a filmmaker and curator from Seoul, South Korea currently based in Chicago. She received her MFA in Documentary Media from Northwestern University (2019) and has an MA in Aesthetics from Seoul National University (2016). Currently running Korean Cinema Chicago, a monthly screening of Korean films in Rogers Park, her programming work includes Slamdance and Vidlings and Tapeheads Film Festival. She is interested in alternative curatorial practices within and beyond institutions.
Sponsored by Korean Cinema Chicago and the Korean Consulate.
