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Neighborhood

21st(2016) Wide Angle

Education · Films about Film · Impaired  

  • CountryKorea
  • Production Year2016
  • Running Time82min
  • Format DCP
  • ColorColor
Program Note
This film tells a story of the House of One Heart, a nursing center for mentally challenged people. The director moves to the center’s neighbourhood and records the life of the people living there. His camera becomes a mediator to help him enter this space and a friend to understand its residents. The film observes them as they deal with their symptoms with the help of medication, repress their anger for fear of being sent back to a hospital, bear with unfair payment for their work and an inability to to choose their own places to live. The director, as I, narrates in the film in the way that sounds more like a private confession rather than an explanation. This film is especially notable as it approaches the mentally challenged people not as an anonymous group but as independent individuals with their own names and pays attention to their lives and voices. It sees them not as a bunch of Alices in Wonderland but as neighbours living next door. It observes and records them closely with warm and intimate eyes.
Director
Director
SUNG Seungtaek
Sung started out in the lighting department of the film JSA(Joint Security Area) and moved on to being the director of photography for Flying Boys (2004). He has since been working as a director of photography on numerous commercials, stage performance videos, and more than ten films including You′re My Sunshine. Neighborhood is Sung’s directorial documentary debut.
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Credit
  • Director SUNG Seungtaek 성승택
  • Producer Changse LEE
  • Cast Woosik JUNG, Jaebong YOU
  • Screenplay Dahyeonn KIM
  • Cinematography Jongkook LEE
  • Editor Jiyun JEONG
  • Music Junkyu LIM
  • Production Company dream design & communications
    Korea 강남구 신사동 563-4 힐빌딩601호 ( 601 hill Bd 563-4 sin-sa-dong Gang-nam-Gu,Seoul)
    dreamdnc@nate.com