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Yellow Flower

1998, Color, 74', Live Action

Dir: LEE Ji-sang

Keyword: Drama, Romance

Release: 2002-09-19

Film Awards

The 1st Hong Kong Korean Film Festival (2004,Hong Kong)
The 5th Independent Film & Video Makers' Forum (2000,Korea)
The 23th Göteborg Film Festival (2000,Swede)
Film from the South Film Festival (2000,Denmark)
The 35th Pesaro Film Festival, New Cinema (1999,Italy)
The 3rd Busan International Film Festival (1998,Korea)

Synopsis

This film consists of two episodes.
PART 1 : A 30-year-old man meets a woman and has sex with her. They do sex without doing anything else. They give away last penny of they've stolen to a cleaner on the street, and do sex until they die. Is there a point of emancipation for the couple within the confines of money and time or is their lust coming to an end in itself?

PART 2 : The same men, here at 19, meets his female counterpart and the two begin a reckless lifestyle, living on fast food and getting high while sniffing synthetic glue.

Described as "a meditation on capitalism" and "a few thoughts on speed", this film uses an experimental narrative structure to unravel the two lives of the same person. Mixing documentary elements with fiction, the film questions the boundary of reality.

Director's Note

What does it mean to break the rules in these times? When does speed come to a halt? Where do taboo and violation branch out? My film explores these questions through the worlds of poet KIM Soo-young.

Director's Bio / Filmography

- LEE Ji-sang

Born in Kimhae in 1962
Studied at the graduate School of Hankook Theological University

1993 [For My Dear Rosa] 16mm, color, 20min.
         Independent Video & Makers' Forum (1996, Korea)
1996 [De-pure Land] 16mm, color/b&w, 21min.
         Korean Panorama, 9th Cote Court Int’l Short Film Festival (2000, France)
         Special Screening, 10th São Paulo Int'l Short Film Festival (1999, Brazil)
         Independent Video & Makers' Forum (1996, Korea)
         Wide Angle, 1st Pusan Int'l Film Festival (1996, Korea)
1998 [Yellow Flower] 16mm, color, 74min.
         1st Hong Kong Korean Film Festival (2004, Hong Kong)
         Film from the South Film Festival (2000, Denmark)
         23rd Göteborg Film Festival (2000, Sweden)
         5th IndieForum, Independent Film & Video Makers’ Forum (2000, Korea)
         New Cinema Section, 35th Pesaro Film Festival (1999, Italy)
         New Currents, 3rd Pusan Int'l Film Festival (1998, Korea)
1999 [A Sudden Crash of Thunder] 35mm, color, 79min.
         Korean Panorama, 4th Pusan Int'l Film Festival (1999, Korea)
2000 [A Story about Her] DV 6mm, color, 120min.
         Opening Film, IndieForum, Independent Film and Video Makers’ Forum (2000, Korea)
2002 [Four Sex Stories, “Infrared Ray”] DV 6mm, color, 98min
         [Thank You] DV 6mm, color/b&w, 71min
         IndieForum, Independent Film and Video Makers’ Forum (2002, Korea)
2003 [Ten Oxherding Pictures #1: Going out in Search of the Ox] DV 6mm, color, 70min.
         IndieForum, Independent Film and Video Makers’ Forum (2004, Korea)
         Seoul Independent Documentary Festival (2004, Korea)
2005 [Ten Oxherding Pictures #2-Seeing the Footprints] DV 6mm, color, 36min.
2006  [Ten Ox-herding Pictures #3-Seeing the Ox-Tibet] DV 6mm, 75min.
2007 [Ten Oxherding Pictures #4: Catching the Ox-Two Chinese Quinces] DV 6mm, color, 21ཏ"
         44th Pesaro Film Festival (2008, Italy)
         Competition, 5th Green Film Festival in Seoul (2008, Korea)
         Korean Shorts: Critics’ Week, 9th Jeonju Int’l Film Festival (2008, Korea)
         Int’l Competition, 54th Int’l Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2008, Germany)
         Competition, 33rd Seoul Independent Film Festival (2007, Korea)
2009 [Mongsil] HD, color, 95min.
         14th Pusan Int'l Film Festival (2009, Korea)
         35th Seoul Independent Film Festival (2009, Korea)

2013 [iYujeong] 82min.
2015 [The Battle of Gwangju] 121min.

Staff

production : INDIESTORY
director : LEE Ji-sang
script : : LEE Ji-sang
producer : CHO Young-kag
cinematography : LIM Chang-jae
1st assistant director : HUH Jae-hyung
2nd assistant director : CHOI Keum-rye, KIM Young-hoon
assistant camera : KIM Sung-hoon
lighting : LIM Chul-bin, LEE Joo-hoon, LEE Sang-kil
editing : KANG Mi-ja, LEE Ji-sang
music : KIM Sung-joon
sound recording : CHOI Tae-young
world sales : INDIESTORY

Cast

KIM Jung-ki, SUH Jung, JANG Mi-roo, CHO Hyung-il