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Fall, Fall, Fall (Collaboration Work) 1998, 7 minutes
| The Story of I (Hyun-Seok Seo)
In the theme of a love triangle as the conceptual link to two other pieces of the
triptych, Story of I starts off as a personal account of a mental dilemma and eventually
contradicts its own setup : The first-person narrative gradually loses its formal base as
the first-person pronoun ("I") in the monologue is reduced to a mere syntactic
component of the Korean alphabet referring to a nameless character. Concurrently, the
story about failed love becomes a metaphor for a fleeting, uncertain moment of
withdrawal and absence.
| The Others' Story ( Hwa-Young Park)
The Others' Story is about a person (or a roach) who views other people's lives as
mere tragic comedies. Yet one does not realize that the one who is playing the fool in
this comedy is nobody but oneself. Ironical ending of the Roach who falls into his own
paradox, underlies Sooyeon's tragedy to come.
| The story of We (Sung-Min Hong)
To stand a good position in particular group, people usually have to agree or (at least)
balance on a certain unvisible philosophy called Level which people made for themselves.
But Sung Min who shows 'a pure love' in my film as a main character come to feel
guilty. Finally, he 'falls off' that line. That invisible standard social thinking which
depressed Sung Min himself, can be only described as language that we use, his
thinking cannot match exactly with others. He rather believe fragmented world which
separated from reality through video phone.
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