Cinema
Homo Videocus
호모 비디오쿠스
Lee Jae-yong and Byun Hyuk · 1990
Synopsis
A boy spends his days in front of the television: for him, the world that shows itself there is the only one that counts. He buys a camcorder and begins filming a woman from the neighbourhood. He has taken Travis, the hero of Taxi Driver, as his model, and dreams of going out into the world outside to purge it of evil, as he has seen it done on screen. His mother, a young girl and the neighbour he spies on revolve around him.
Context
A graduation film from the Korean National University of Arts film school in Seoul, where its two authors were students, it runs nineteen minutes according to the Korean Film Archive database. It received the prize for best fiction short at the San Francisco festival in 1992, then at Clermont-Ferrand the Youth Prize and the Research Prize, in 1993 according to the festival, in 1991 according to koreanfilm.org, and a silver medal at Montecatini. Clermont-Ferrand reprogrammed it in 2017 in a retrospective of this school, the year Byun Hyuk sat on the international jury.
Who it is for
A short film of about twenty minutes, in Korean, included in retrospectives devoted to the Korean school of cinema.
Prizes and reception
Awarded prizes in San Francisco, Clermont-Ferrand and Montecatini, and shown in Vancouver and Hong Kong.
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