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Home > Shorts > Experimental > Weeping Woman
Weeping Woman
2006, DV 6mm, color, 13'33
Dir: BAEK Seung-hoon
Keyword: Drama
There¡¯s a woman crying on a bench on the sidewalk. There are four people in a restaurant observing her. They themselves become attached to this woman by trying to understand why she is crying. But they can only use their own life experiences to understand and identify themselves with the woman. So they made a wager to see who was right and ultimately chose someone to go and ask her why she was crying. However, this woman just smiled and left.
To fully understand someone is impossible. One can only guess what another is feeling when they put themselves in their shoes. What one experiences through life to another¡¯s is different, so each individual thought in one¡¯s soul only understands itself to the extent of their own experience. When one cannot understand another¡¯s emotions, saying anything a few hundred times still would not do. There¡¯s a saying in China, "playing a piano for a cow," which means it¡¯s no use to talk to someone who doesn¡¯t understand; which is why I used a cow in the film¡¯s conclusion. From this problem, we can witness the conflict between people and their relationships.
BAEK Seung-hoon

Born in 1979, Pusan
Graduated from Dong-ah Broadcasting College
Beijing Film Academy, Dept. of Film Directing 

1998  [We Are...?] DV 6mm, color, 15min.
2002  [Our Own Universe] DV 6mm, color, 21min. 
          Netizen Award, 2nd KIPA Student Film Festival (2002, Korea)
2003  [JCA Joint Cultivation Area] DV 6mm, color, 15min. 
          Special Prize, 5th Beijing Student Film Festival (2003, China)
          8th Grade in Experimental work, 3rd Beijing Int’l Student Short Film Festival (2003, China)
          1st Beijing Youth Film Festival (2004, China)
2004  [Destiny] DV 6mm, color, 24min. 
          1st Korea Int’l Youth Film Festival (2004, Korea) 
          1st Beijing Youth Film Festival (2004, China)
2005  [American Dream] DV 6mm, color, 28min. 
          2nd Beijing Youth Film Festival (2005, China) 
          Competition, 31st Seoul Independent Film Festival (2005, Korea)
2006  [Weeping Woman] DV 6mm, color, 13'33"



Director/screenwriter/editing: BAEK Seung-hoon
Production: Beijing Film Academy
Producer: ROH Hyen-soo
Assistant director: HUANG Ting Ting
Cinematography: BAEK Seung-hoon/FANG Ya Xi
Lighting: WANG Jin Hui
Composer: JUNG Jae-hwan
Recording: ZHANG Wen/JHANG Bo
Art: AN Yan/HUO Li Qing
JIA Xiao Ye as weeping woman
JIAO Yang as woman 1
XIA Yang Yang man 1